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THE AMERICAN
BEE JOURNAL

OLDEST BEE PAPER
IN AMERICA

ESTABLISHED
IN 1861

Published every Wednesday, by

THOMAS G. NEWMAN,

Editor and Proprietor,

974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

For the American Bee Journal

What is the Royal Jelly?

C. J. ROBINSON.

I propose, by permission, to discussin the columns of the Bee Journalthe hitherto puzzling problem: “Whatis royal jelly, that substance knownto produce the transformation of workerlarvæ to queens?” Profound scientists ofEurope and this country have delvedinto the secrets of the grand problem,but none of them have handed down asatisfactory solution. Yet, it does notseem rational that the question is so obstruseas to forever remain past findingout what the so-called royal jelly consistsof; the source from which it is derived;its definite action on larvæ;and whether it is administered by theworkers as a nourishing aliment to larvæ;in royal cells, or for the purpose of impregnatingthe larvæ; (as pistilliferousflowers are impregnated with pollen)and thus develop a female bee fullyqualified to reproduce males. The settleddoctrine of writers on bee-mattersis that it is chiefly due to the excess offood served to the larva by the workersthat produces the transformation fromworker to queen. Still no writer hasventured to assert that such is a demonstratedfact. The late Baron of Berlepsch,the able expounder of the DzierzonTheory, and the most scientific andpractica

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