The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-03

as soon as they are born, or to perl herself in the combat; for undouhte1 U thls is for the good of the communal ana maternal love or maternal hatr though the lattsr fortunately is m rare is all the same to the inexora principle Of natural selection.
 However. owing to the value of fI young, the golden queen bee is not D mlRed to destroy her daughters, al this through deception.
 From early May until october al queen bee will lay from 2,oOO to 8, eggs a day She works incessanE while the sun shines and for every minutes of labor she rests only Ave 1' outrious little mother, do we wond that her children serve her and ,ove no human potentate is serys ed aI lovedt
 The greater part of brood comb composed of small cells, in the rd Of which the queen lays eggs whA will produce workers or sterile fennal
 There is no misnomer whatever the name golden bee" One viii call the lines of Horace an which wrote of the bee as "a drop of golH Virgil sang of 'the living drop of a ber." In the golden bee you can inod inc you see a little bodv naln,tatiE with golden fire in the sunshine diaphanous wings glttering as ttI culver in flight through the warm sI Other poets since have invested t tiny Insect with an aureate hue--fI think a moment, have you ever seerS really golden bee? Unless you aras raiser of bees you probably have nA If you remember, nearly all the b3 you have seen were either dark broJ or belted as with leather. You are ot,I familiar with the big, buzzing, blad bodied humble bee, but perhaps | with the little golden-clad creatd which inspired Virgil.
 The golden bee is actually golden a
 is one of the rarest of bees, and 1t as gentle as 1t is beautiful. So rar does 1t sting that 1t has been cal the "non-stinging bee" It may
 handled almost with impunity. Fl thermote 1t is an amazing producer
 honey, one hive having collected {
 nually about 1s5 pounds of the gold
 sweet. As to the value of the quee
 they sell at prices ranging from $25 $100 apiece.
 This royal bee has achieved
 unique position of "a pet In the priv
 apiary of Emperor Francis Joseph
 reigns supreme; in watching the Am
 ican insect Czar Nicholas of Rus
 finds amusement. So valuable Is it c 1 sidered as a worker that its culture 1 encouraged and urged by the agric
 tural departments of the governme
 of Germany, France, Belgium, It
 and Austria.
 | The producer of the golden bee is 1 apiculturist who has performed his
 bors for amusement, and of his
 he said to the writer with sinc
 heartiness:
 T have always loved them. I Ii
 studied them and watched them. T
 never fail to interest you. Their Ii are pure, as sweet as the honey t make. They are clean, there is nc more scrtipulously clean animal in ation than the bee And the order their lives, the harmony of their g ernment, the wonderful, inexplains instinct that guides them! Bees : pets? Certainly. they are the most teresting and most lovable" The golden bee is evolved from . Italian bee, which was the lightes any in coloring. A number were : ported to this country some years l and the experiment of producing : really golden creature was begun.
 Italian bees were kept apart from } CTS and careful process of selec i was inaugurated. Careful watch 5 kept, and when the queens were l the llghtest colored one was isola . She was then introduced into a : from which she was sent out to n When she returned and began la, s eggs the vigil was all the more clo $ kept. Day after day the bees were } tied, and when the young gu, ! emerged from their cells the Ugh { colored was often selected and isols : This process was repeated over
 over again during a summer, and l for summer after summer years ' on and the experimenting apicultl saw his bees losing the leathery bs t which encircled them, and assumir l lighter color As he said, My dt t bees were turning into gold" It a labor of love and of consuming I terest, and ceaseless watching and
 were the requisites, but from it f came the golden bee, the royal be l the world!--T. Everett Harry in 8 per's Weekly.
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