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grasped as shown, and can be moved to any 

 angle so as to strike the light. The little 

 stick used for transferring the larva? is sim- 

 ply a piece of section stuff about '1^.2 inches 

 long, one end being about % inch wide, and 

 the other about 1-lG, and as fine as can be 

 sharpened, with the point bent just a little 



be placed in the bottom of the cell very 

 gently. I can't, for the life of me, imagine 

 how you can raise more queens by the old- 

 fashioned method. 



The editor of Gleanings replies as fol- 

 lows : — 



-INS£1;TXNG XUE LAKVAE. 



so as to slip under a larvie. The larger end 

 of the stick is used for placing the royal 

 jelly in the cells, and occasionally for 

 bruising down a cell so as to get convenient- 

 ly at the larvH. Fig. 2 shows the act of 

 placing a larva in a cell; and the support- 

 ing-bar, beintr wider than the cells, acts as a 

 rest to steady the hand, so that the larva can 



[ The proof of the pudding is in the eat- 

 ing. The proof of your statements is shown 

 in the half tone plates herewith reproduced, 

 and I am very glad to take back all I have 

 said that could be in any way construed as 

 reflecting on the new way of queen-rearing. 

 If the results shown in Fig. 1 are what you 

 secure on the average (and I have no reason 



