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due to grip, which attacked him tliroe 

 years ago. Two years ago came the 

 second attack, and still the third one 

 a year ago. The last attack caused the 

 mastoid trouble, for which he under- 

 went an operation at the hospital. He 

 recovered from this operation very 

 nicely, but there was still something 

 wrong that dated back to the first at- 

 tack of grip. He kept trying and try- 

 ing to overcome that, but without suc- 

 cess. Finally his doctor told him he 

 had ana?mia and that his food did not 

 nourish him sufficiently. Later his 

 heart became affected, and he went to 

 Ann Arbor for about ten weeks. His 

 heart trouble improved, but he was still 

 in bad shape. Later he went to Ohio 

 and treated with a specialist, but with- 

 out success. Returning home, he un- 

 derwent another operation for a chronic 

 trouble that had attacked him, and 

 would of itself take him away if not 

 overcome. The operation was success- 

 ful, but that anaemia was still there. 

 He could not gain in flesh. Finally 



he seemed better, and went down town 

 on business, only to contract a severe 

 case of bronchitis. This pulled him 

 way down again and weakened him 

 very much. Transfusion of blood was 

 proposed and performed. At first he 

 seemed stronger, but as soon as the 

 good blood was used up he began 

 growing weaker, his heart became bad 

 again, and at the last he sank rapidly, 

 becoming unconscious, in which condi- 

 tion he died. 



Thus passed away from this earth 

 one of its best of men. Always hope- 

 ful, his life was an inspiration to 

 others. Right up to the last he was 

 laying plans for the future, and ex- 

 pecting to get well. No matter what 

 happened he was always looking en 

 the best side, and may we, his students, 

 not only learn the lessons of bee 

 keeping as taught through his writings, 

 but may we learn the greater lessons 

 of faith, courage and optimism as 

 taught by his life.' 



How A Bee-Keeper Can Rear His Own Queens Above 

 Excluders While Producing Extradled Honey. 



JOHN A. McKINNON. 



' ■ Jl N the January number of the Re- 

 Jl view you made a request for arti- 

 cles on raising queens above ex- 

 cluders. As I had good success 

 last season in raising queens and 

 getting them mated over strong col- 

 onies, in extracting supers, my ex- 

 perience might contain some of the 

 information asked for. This plan 

 can only be worked in a yard run for 

 extracted honey. 



I began the season with 24 colonies, 

 and later bought four more, and every- 

 thing was done to get them as strong as 

 possible early in the season. When 

 strong enough they were supplied with 



full depth extracting supers containing 

 full sheets of foundation, and in most 

 cases the queens were occupying those 

 supers almost as soon as the foundation 

 was drawn out. When the clover flow 

 had been on one week, I made prepar- 

 ations for raising my supply of young 

 queens. Aly wife made the cell cups, a 

 la Doolittle, and the first batch was 

 started according to his plan. These 

 were placed over a strong colony with 

 the queen on foundation in the lower 

 story, and the brood piled in two supers 

 above the excluder. When about ready 

 to hatch the cells were put in cell pro- 

 tectors and one placed in each of sev- 



