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tlirongli a similar experience can realize just 

 how our good friend felt at the loss of that 

 select imported queen. Imasine. if you 

 please, six dollars or more taking wings and 

 Hying awny riglit before your face and eyes; 

 and to add to the disappointment, tlie queen 

 happened to be one that exactly j)leased, so 

 far as looks were concerned. Did you ever 

 have a ([ueen that just suited you to a. dot — 

 so much so that you felt like saying, ''Tliere. 

 I would not take a ten-dollar bill ft)r that 

 ' lady " j'lst as he stands there on the comb'":' 

 Then to have her missing is one of the most 

 ))erple.\ing and provoking things I know of. 

 This story, however, was to hiive two chap- 

 ters, and I take great pleasure in presenting 

 you now with chapter two. 



CHAPTER II. — BLASTED UOl'RS DISPELLED, AND 



[(RIGHT HOPES ENCOURAOINf, TAKING 



THEIR PLACE. 



[ oniered another queen of yon this uioruing in 

 the place of the one which tiew away while intro- 

 ducing-, July 1. I had a swarm come off in the moru- 

 ing of that day; and while cutting out the cells one 

 yoiuig queen hatched, but the ne.xt day I found her 

 dead in front of the hive. This afternoon I thought 

 1 would look in and see wtiat was the matter, and 

 give them another cell. I was astonislu-d to fliid 

 eggs in several combs, and on looking further I 

 found my imported queen, as large a.s life, and ap- 

 ])arently very much at home. I know I can not be 

 mistaken, for I noticed particularly when the queen 

 arrived, that she had the point of the right wing 

 clipped off a very little in a rounding manner, and 

 her shape seems a little ditferent from the rest of 

 my queens. She is in another part of the apiary al- 

 together from where I introduce;! her, and the sur- 

 roundings are not at all alike. I hope you will not 

 have sent another when this rrsiches you. for I can 

 not make use of two imported (lucens, and there is 

 no one here to whom I could sell such an expensive 

 (jueen. This will reach .\'ou by the next mail; and 

 if you are not very pronqit, 1 think it will reach you 

 in time. Mrs. A. F. Proper. 



Portland, Ind.. July .5, issv. 



Now, then, friends, if you know what it is 

 to feel keen disappointment you may also 

 know what it is to feel real pleasure. I have 

 sometimes thought that it is only by these 

 strong contrasts that Me are enabled to 

 take in, to the fidlest extent, the pleasant 

 things of this world. He who has never 

 known sickness knows not the joy of full 

 health ; so it is only he who has known loss 

 that can feel, to the fidlest extent, a thrill 

 of success. If our good friend is not light- 

 hearted, I am no judge. — Now one word in 

 regard to queens getting into other hives. 

 There is oftentimes something very strange 

 about the way they turn up in unexpected 

 places, and I have been able to exi)lain it 

 only by supposing they crawled or hopped 

 about at random until they accidentally 

 came near enough to heal' the hum of some 

 hive. ]Jeing attracted by this they crawl in, 

 sometimes to be stnngto deatii, but very 

 often to be well received, and supplant the 

 reigning queen, as in the above. A laying 

 queen will almost always receive the prefer- 

 ence over a yoiuig queen that has not com- 

 menced to lay; and lliis is a hint in intro 

 ducing. We can nearly always let a laying 

 queen right loose in any hive where there is 



a young queen recently hatched. Luckily 

 for our friend, our imported (jueens were 

 out, and we were waiting for another ship- 

 ment, or we should probably have made 

 trouble by our usual promptness. 



THE TWO PART SUPER. 



SUGGESTIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION OP SUPERS, 

 FROM .T. M. SHUCK. 



ITH the aid of the cuts, little description is 

 needed. The sections tu-e set in one half, 

 and the separators between the end sec- 

 tions in the rows, and the supers are slip- 

 ped in, then the other half of the super is 

 slipped over the sections, and the two i)arts locked 

 together bj' the clasps shown at the ends of the 

 case. The T supports for the sections are made ei- 

 ther by nailing metal strips to the outer edges of 

 the partitions of the rows of sections, or wholly of 

 tin, as shown in the engraving. The T rails in this 



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siiper are nailed fast in their places, and the super 

 is made very stiff and serviceable. With proper use 

 it should last fifty years or more. The blank tops 

 and bottoms to the sections shown in the cut are to 

 keep the tops and bottoms of sections clean, and 

 they serve the purpose admirably, as the sections 

 come from the super cleaner than they can be 

 scraped after coming fi-om any other case I ever 

 saw. The super may be used either with or without 

 these blanks. The separators at the ends of the 

 rows of sections prevent the bees from propolizing 

 the super and thus fastening the sections; and the 

 super is slipped otf the sections as easily, and in less 

 time, than it takes to put the sections into the super. 



