The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881

The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881

Remit by money-order, registered letter, express or bank draft on Chicago or New York, payable to our order. Such only are at our risk. Checks on local banks cost us 25 cents for collecting. I propose, by permission, to discuss in the columns of the Bee Journal the hitherto puzzling problem: What is royal jelly, that substance known to produce the transformation of worker larv to queens? Profound scientists of Europe and this country have delved into the secrets of the grand problem, but none of them have handed down a satisfactory solution. Yet, it does not seem rational that the question is so obstruse as to forever remain past finding out what the so-called royal jelly consists of; the source from which it is derived; its definite action on larv; and whether it is administered by the workers as a nourishing aliment to larv; in royal cells, or for the purpose of impregnating the larv; (as pistilliferous flowers are impregnated with pollen) and thus develop a female bee fully qualified to reproduce males. The settled doctrine of writers on bee-matters is that it is chiefly due to the excess of food served to the larva by the workers that produces the transformation from worker to queen. Still no writer has ventured to assert that such is a demonstrated fact. The late Baron of Berlepsch, the able expounder of the Dzierzon Theory, and the most scientific and practical apicultural writer and experienced apiarist in all Europe, wrote thus: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61056
Author: Various
Release Date: Dec 30, 2019
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Language: English

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Editor: Newman, Thomas G. (Thomas Gabriel), 1833-1903