. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 599 It seems from some provision of nature, that the drone-eggs never receive this seminal or impregnating fluid, hence the drone progeny is no blood kin to the father of the sister bees. A pure Ital- ian queen will produce pure Italian drones, but if she be mated with a black or German drone, her female or working progeny will hybridized. ReadDadant's " Revision of Langstroth," pages 53 and 54.—J. M. Hambaugh. 1. No. 2. I don't account for them, as I don't think they exist. If the drones are impure, the queen was. How
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 599 It seems from some provision of nature, that the drone-eggs never receive this seminal or impregnating fluid, hence the drone progeny is no blood kin to the father of the sister bees. A pure Ital- ian queen will produce pure Italian drones, but if she be mated with a black or German drone, her female or working progeny will hybridized. ReadDadant's " Revision of Langstroth," pages 53 and 54.—J. M. Hambaugh. 1. No. 2. I don't account for them, as I don't think they exist. If the drones are impure, the queen was. How can any one swear that a queen is surely pure ? Tainted drones show that she is not. I have tested this question very carefully, and to my full satisfaction. I will soon give an elaborate article on it for the readers of the American Bee Journal.—A. J. Cook. 1. There is no difference that I can ?jell by looks; but there certainly must be a difference. I will now state what I have been afraid to talk about, hereto- fore, viz: That a queen mating to a different race has a tendency to affect the drone as well as the worker. I may get a tongue-lashing for this, but I will tell you that my notion is that the bee- business wont run well on theory, no how.—Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 1. This is getting to be a terrible ques- tion—like Bango's ghost, it won't "; But I will give you my views on the subject. As the eggs are formed and developed in the ovary, there can be no perceivable difference whether grown in the ovaries of a fertile or unfertile queen. But all my experiments demon- strate to my intelligence, that the drone progeny of a virgin queen is sterile— while the drone progeny of the fertilized queen is fertile. Now when the virgin queen mates with the male, and her spermatheca is filled, she receives addi- tional strength not only to produce drone progeny, but fertile drone progeny —and—and—. Please tell me how it is, or have me excused.—6. W. Demar
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