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were as familiar to him as a nursery 

 rhyme. His intense desire to learn and 

 investigate the bees in every particular 

 has been such that he has dreamed of 

 them at night, and thought of them in 

 his working hours to almost an absorb- 

 ing extent, and to-day he is still a stu- 

 dent, believing that there are many un- 

 explored regions, and much room for the 

 deepest thought, even on the practical 

 part of this pursuit. 



In the first years of his apicultural 

 study, Elisha Gallup, then living in 



was in bee-keeping, which has caused 

 the subject of this sketch to study along 

 the line of queen-rearing to a much 

 larger extent than any other part of this 

 interesting pursuit, and it is believed by 

 him that much of his success as a honey- 

 producer has come from this, and his 

 ever-anxious care to get the hive filled 

 with brood at sijch a time that there 

 would be multitudes of field-bees at the 

 opening of the honey harvest. 



To the above we may add the follow- 

 ing, which was written of Mr. Doollttle 



GILBERT M. DOLLITTLE. 



Iowa, gave him by letter much practical 

 instruction, which, together with Gal- 

 lup's articles in the different papers of 

 that time, so grew into his life that he 

 went by the name of " Gallup " among 

 bee-keepers about him for several years; 

 and to-day he is often heard to say that 

 there never has, to his mind, been a 

 greater man in the realm of bee-keeping 

 than E. Gallup. 



Gallup, in his private letters, laid 

 great stress on good queens, claiming 

 that around the queen centered all there 



by a good friend, in the "ABC Bee- 

 Culture :" 



As a business, Mr. D. has made bee- 

 keeping a success, although he has never 

 kept a large number of colonies, princi- 

 pally, if not wholly, because he prefers 

 to keep no more than he can manage 

 without outside help. In 1886 he wrote 

 in the American Bee Journal : 



" From less than 50 colonies of bees, 

 spring count, I have cleared over $1,000 

 each year for the past 13 years, taken 

 as an average. I have not hired 13 

 days' labor in that time in the apiary, 

 nor had apprentices or students to do 

 the work for me, although I have had 



