The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-07-18 00:00:00

BEEKEEPING.

Tea Rom. Maisimar.—Tbe q who la the only
tidy of the hive, eiders the girlie's of being followed by
essay belayed suitors to the persona of the drum. At
the early see of two or three days she is marriageable. sad
It rattly hams, that her royal decitios I. lose postposed ;
and. indeed, if see were not favourably dimmed for such
aa meat, the anxiety of her nomwous subjects would
urge her to li, for to no houses monarchy am the hopes of
socoos so soziously cherished as to tee laspire of the
Him. It mast not be trusteed that become • lady is
thee domesticated alone with so many hundred lovers,
there is the loot degree al lazily la the morals of the
.OCW, on the contrary, although she Is absolutely
onammeoileet. and is courted by so essay hundreds, her
&Moe is strictly limited to ose. A Ane, worm. sunny
day is selected for the nuptials, which are celebrated in
the air. On the auspicious occsaion. bet mejesty. Weise
from the hive followed by the multitude of her suitors,
rides In the sir, wh-r• alto is encircled by the flied of the
eudidates for her favour. Here she makes her selection,
but. ales I the felicity is brief, for the object of her choice
never outlives the wedding-day. An. is, however, not the
kill faithful t Men, and never Gamuts • second
Though her majesty is thus left • widowed
fs'siagstar two days sitar the c slebratios of her nuptials and
the loss of her lord, she commune to lay sags from
which a posthumous progeny of that lord, countless In
Dumber, are destined to isms Of the hundreds
of rejected stilton, • limited number emigrate
with the succusive swarms. which from time ti
time leave the oval -peopled him. Those which re-
main, being no longer useful to the cionmassity, booms
objects of lornarel aversion, and are ilnallienstensainated
by a general massacre. During sir or eight weeks the
queen pestaatly lays esp, from which w bees may
am destined to Use. Chambers bare bees previoesly pers-
pired for them% suitable to the (store youag onah in form,
miss, and polite" by the workers. In each of those cells
the queen deposits • "ogle ws. At a taur pick,4 her
majesty bee=to by mother 'dad of em, from which
males will For them also special -Useatiers have
been provided by be careful carters, of seilshis dimes-
dos, being soeseethat man roomy than those prepared for
the worker eggs. TIN number of them male ens end of
the oohs tor their rummies la incomparably lees the. these
of the workers; lees, be short, In the proportioa la which
the drone elms is lase numerous thee that of the workers
In the youlatios of the Woo In don the oases,
emmible of her mortality, and moreover of Me
ag Mete of seu es raband ant parasit in the
:treii,eaclals • certain small number of royal aggs, from
welds as many princesses issue, who are severally
&slimed to he candidates for the throws of the eakolie
which are to emigrate, or to mowed to the thrones of the
hive itself. 'bolt lba quose.mother. as often u
&Mho on abdiciti off and ormolu the alleglascreirr.
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or ether of the emisreilog coloalem Special chambers of
essePtiousi torso. Position, and magnitude have bees ,
siesely prepared for them royal eggs by the provident
werkera In these the priocues ate rued and dusted
with eatmardinery core, being fed with welter food. It
Is Insatial to the prosperity of the cooneassilv. that the ,
miptile et the queen should not be postponed to • Wm
period them the mooed day of her see, the osulaqsprhes of
such posteimommat being that her prosony mould mead
of. roduadeacy of drones. Thus, Il the amnia be Ml'
posed till she b abuts fertalaht she will lay se away
&sae se worker-este, and till be delayed wall her see
three weeks. she will only lay drone eggs. Hew great a
cabusity such sweets must be in the avialian economy
be understood, when It is considered that Ins waives-
latod society than ought to be about tee workers to each
drone.