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will make the 



themselves penned in 

 others uneasy. 



We have another article from that 

 Chinese contributor, which we will pub- 

 lish as soon as we have room for it. 



Queen Questions.— S. A. Smith, 

 of Blue Springs, Nebr., asks these ques- 

 tions, and requests that they be an- 

 swered in the Bee Journal : 



1. When is the best time to re-queen 

 an apiary ? 



2. Is a queen that is reared out of the 

 natural swarming season as good as one 

 reared during the swarming season ? 



3. Is a queen that is reared in the 

 South as good as one reared in our own 

 latitude ? S. A. Smith. 



1. The question as to whether the 

 apiarist should take into his own hands 

 the matter of renewing his queens or 

 leaving it in the hands of the bees is one 

 on which all are not agreed. Perhaps 

 the majority leave it to the bees. But if 

 you decide to supplant all your queens, 

 perhaps you will find no better time 

 than during the harvest, or near its 

 close. If you are as successful as some, 

 and get the new queen to laying within 

 48 hours after the removal of the old, 

 you will see that very little will be lost 

 by the change in any case. 



2. As a rule, no. But whether a 

 queen may be reared out of the swarm- 

 ing season which shall be as good as 

 any, is quite another question. Many 

 insist, and perhaps rightly, that by hav- 

 ing proper control of conditions the bee- 

 keeper may secure just as good queens 

 at a time when bees left to themselves 

 would rear one. 



3. Many queens raised in the South 

 have been sent North, and there seem 

 no adverse reports about them. 



Self-Hivers is to be the "special 

 topic" of the March Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view. 



Read our great offer on page 261. 



MOSES qriNBY. 



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To many of the present readers of the 

 Amebic AN Bee Joubnal, the name of 

 Quinby is almost unknown ; but to those 

 who are acquainted with the bee-keeping 

 of 25 or more years ago, the one whose 

 picture is shown on the opposite page is 

 indeed well known. 



It is well for us all to often turn back 

 our thoughts to other days and times, 

 lest we forget " the pit from which we 

 were digged," or the struggles and sac- 

 rifices endured by others, so that to-day 

 it might be possible for us to enjoy the 

 unnumbered blessings which are the 

 results of the untiring efforts of those 

 who have long since passed from the 

 field of activity. As in other pursuits, 

 so it is in bee-keeping, and hence we 

 this week feel that with no little pleas- 

 ure will be read the following account 

 of Moses Quinby— one of the Princes in 

 the realm of bee-culture a quarter of a 

 century ago. Once more we are in- 

 debted to that peer in enduring apicul- 

 tural literature— the "ABC of Bee- 

 Culture " — for these paragraphs telling 

 of a noble man and his nobler life : 



Moses Quinby was born April IB, 

 1810, in Westchester county, N. Y. 

 While a boy he went to Greene county, 

 and in 1853 from thence to St. Johns- 

 ville, Montgomery county, N. Y., where 

 he remained until the time of his death. 

 May 27, 1875. 



Mr.Quinby was reared among Quakers, 

 and from his earliest years was ever the 

 same cordial, straightforward, and earn- 

 est person. Ho had no special advan- 

 tages in the way of obtaining an educa- 

 tion, but he was an original thinker, 

 and of that investigating turn of mind 

 which is always sure to educate itself. 



