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exhibitor, and of his services in connec- 

 tion with bee-associations, we would add 

 that our friend was born in Hudson, 

 Columbia county, N. Y., July 22, 1842. 

 He attended school and worked in a 

 printing-oflSce until Sept. 9, 1858, when 

 he removed to Michigan. He began 

 working for the Michigan Southern & 

 Northern Indiana railroad, now known 

 as the L. S. & M. S., in the capacity of 

 a baggage-man. In 1861 he left this 

 position and went into the army. In the 

 spring of 1863 he commenced work at 

 Newburg, N. Y., building marine and 

 stationary engines. He was married to 

 Miss Frances Gardner Sept. 27, 1865. 

 He now has a family of seven children — 

 four boys and three" girls. In 1867 he 

 removed to Clinton, Mich., and started a 

 machine shop of his own, and he has 

 been engaged in building machinei-y 

 ever since. 



He has been interested in bees for a 

 good many years, and commenced the 

 business in 1866. He has not been a 

 prolific writer, but, as will be seen by 

 Prof. Cook's sketch, he has rendered 

 valuable service to bee-keepers, > par- 

 ticularly those of Michigan. He was 

 President of the Southeastern Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, also President of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion for 1886, and is now Superinten- 

 dent of the Bee and Honey Department 

 of the Detroit Exposition. He has acted 

 as an expert judge of bees, honey, and 

 supplies, at many of the largest exhibi- 

 tions. Besides bees, Mr. Cutting is in- 

 terested in poultry and small fruits. He 

 is also a student of the microscope, and 

 finds great pleasure in all these pas- 

 times. He is strongly opposed to the 

 use of intoxicants and tobacco, and so 

 far none of his children use them. So 

 much for a good example. 



Friend Cutting paid us a visit a short 

 time ago, and we found that he was not 

 only enthusiastic on bees and everything 

 connected with the industry, but he en- 

 joyed intensely talking about machines 

 and machinery. He is a very fine me- 

 chanic, and has a splendid knowledge of 

 almost everything connected with his 

 trade. 



Thoughjmuch more might be written 

 of Bro. Cutting, we will only say that 

 he sold out his homo apiary at Clinton to 

 go as General Manager and Superin- 

 tendent of a large Chemical Fire Engine 

 Company. After selling out he declined 

 to go. He is now looking for a location 

 to start a bee and poultry farm in con- 



nection with fruits, for he is one of the 

 men that believe in some variety in their 

 work. 



Bro. Cutting, as previously announced, 

 was appointed to take charge of Michi- 

 gan's honey exhibit at the World's Fair, 

 and is at this very time putting up the 

 display. He is a hard worker, and judg- 

 ing from Prof. Cook's description of him 

 as a hustler at Fairs, we may look for 

 something pretty fine in the apiarian ex- 

 hibit of Michigan at the World's Fair. 



As a*concluding remark, we may say 

 of Bro. Cutting that he is a man who 

 believes in " Up with the right ; down 

 with the wrong !" 



conducted by 

 Greenville. Texas. 



No. 5. — Texas and Her Hesources. 



(Continued from pag'e 110.) 



Game is plentiful in some counties of 

 southwest Texas, and all lovers of fish 

 should live here, as fish abound in great 

 profusion. Then those that love nature 

 should live in this country. Its grand 

 scenery, its mountains and valleys, its 

 vast prairies, dotted here and there with 

 small clusters of timber, and the level 

 prairies are usually covered about as 

 thickly with mosquite timber as a peach 

 orchard, which it very much resembles, 

 and blooms out after every rain in 

 spring and summer, furnishing a new 

 crop of bloom for the bees to feast upon, 

 and making an almost continuous honey- 

 How through spring and summer. 



Then to call a few of the most noted 

 peaks by name will give you a better 

 idea of the scenery. There is Bachelor's 

 Peak mountain up 100 feet above the 

 land below, on which a derrick is built 



