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Association, and in 1886 was made an 

 honorary member. 



At Chicago, in November, 1887, on 

 his 54th birthday, Mr. M. was chosen 

 president of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Society. 



Since the foregoing was written by 

 Mrs. Mason, we may say further that 

 the Doctor was re-elected President of 

 the North American the following year, 

 at Columbus, Ohio. For the past nearly 

 four years he has been postmaster at his 

 home — Auburndale, Ohio — and although 

 thus engaged he has not lost his interest 

 in bee-keeping. This is shown in his 

 activity in the Ohio State Apiarian Ex- 

 hibit at the World's Fair, which he has 

 in charge. 



Having quite recently been relieved of 

 his duties as postmaster, he will now 

 have ample time and opportunity to do 

 more for the cause of bee-culture, both 

 practically and in a literary way, than 

 he has been permitted to do for several 

 years. We hope soon to have some- 

 thing from his ready pen, which always 

 writes pleasingly and profitably. 



Samantlia at Saratogfa.— One 



of the richest books in genuine humor 

 that has been published for many years, 

 in the English language, is "Samantha 

 at Saratoga," by Miss Marietta Holley. 

 Rev. Dr. Newman, the Bishop of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, says of this 

 book : 



" I commend ' Samantha at Saratoga ' 

 as an antidote for the blues, a cure-all 

 for any kind of imaginary woe, a recrea- 

 tion from mental taxation, a provoca- 

 tion for wholesome laughter, and an in- 

 spiration to godliness. It is the bitter- 

 est satire sugar-coated with the sweet- 

 ness of exhilarating fun ; it is irony 

 laughing at fashionable folly ; it is ex- 

 alted wit with the scalpel in one hand 

 and the Balm of Gilead in the other. 

 Her personality is intense, her genius 

 immense, her art perfect. She stands 

 alone in her chosen sphere without a 

 rival." 



Read our great offer of this book free, 

 on page 741 of this copy of the Bee 



JOUKNAL. 



Bees and Honey" — see page 739. 



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Greenville. Texas. 



How to Rear Queen-Bees. 



As I have so often been requested to 

 repeat the "Queen-Rearing Dialogue" 

 that was published in this department 

 last September and October, I will en- 

 deavor to do so in as condensed a form 

 as possible. It is as follows : 



" What are you going to do with those 

 wax-cups you are dipping there ?" These 

 are the Doolittle queen-cell cups we 

 read about. 



" What are you putting them on that 

 comb for, when Doolittle says put them 

 on sticks ?" You see the weather is 

 cooler now, and we find by sticking 

 these cell-cups right on the sealed brood, 

 the bees accept and finish them up 

 better. 



" How do you make them stick on the 

 brood ?" You see the cups are dipped 

 stout at the base, or dipped times 

 enough to form a Qood lump of wax, so 

 I can handle them without injury. I 

 then press them down firm on the sealed 

 brood, with the tip of the cell standing 

 a little oflf from the comb. I put into 

 these cell-cups royal jelly, or food pre- 

 pared by the bees to rear a queen with. 

 To get the royal jelly, we let nuclei re- 

 main queenless for three days before we 

 give them another cell, and then they 

 are sure not to tear the cell down. By 

 this time these nuclei have all started 

 queen-cells. 



I then take out the larvae from the 

 cells the nuclei have started, and with a 

 little spoon made for the purpose, I call 

 a " royal jelly spoon," I dip the jelly 

 from the cells in the nuclei, and put it 

 into little boxes. That is where we get 

 most of our royal jelly. You can take 

 the jelly from any place where the bees 

 have started cells. 



"Are you having your cells built in 

 upper stories over colonies having a lay- 

 ing queen, as Doolittle does ?" No ; I 



