Facts About The Queen Bee

A queen can beat a hen at laying. Give her the best surroundings, with plenty of honey coming in and all that, and she will lay 3,000 eggs in 24 hours. She does not cackle over it, either. Eacli egg measures 1-14 of an inch in length and 1-70 of an inch in thickness. Even when she ia only doing an average business she will lay more than twice her own weight in 24 hours. But, mind you, she does not do anything else. Does not even feed herself. You will see the workers constantly offering her food.-