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around in different ]ilaces in the cellar. 

 Mice will not do much damage in a cel- 

 lar furnished in this manner. 



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Ernest Wynne Bovden is the name 

 of a new little boy that came November 

 2nd (the 21st birthday of our twins) to 

 gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. 

 Bovden, of Medina, Ohio. Mr. Boyden 

 is the Michigan young man who went 

 down to Medina a few years ago, became 

 one of the business managers for the A. I. 

 Root Co., won the heart and hand of 

 Constance Root, or "Blue Eyes," as Mr. 

 Root used to call her in Gleanings, has 

 since become one of the partners in the 

 company — and now has a boy, as well as 

 the rest of them. Congratulations, Ar- 

 thur. 



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Don't W.\it too long about putting 

 the bees in the cellar. After the breed- 

 ing season is over, and the bees have set- 

 tled down for winter, I doubt if the leav- 

 ing of them out of doors is of any great 

 benefit to them. They are consuming 

 ver}' little honey, and there is no over- 

 loaded condition to be relieved by a flight. 

 Leaving the bees out until there is severe 

 weather is far from desirable. For sev- 

 eral years I have put my bees in the cel- 

 lar about the 20th of November. This 

 year I put eight colonies in a clamp on 

 the ^nd of November. I'll tell you 

 about them next spring. 



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MOW T(J r.KT THE BEST (,)UEEN-CELLS. 



Mr. \V. H. Pridgen writes to Gleanings 

 that much better queen-cells may be se- 

 cured by giving the prepared cups {a la 

 Doolittle I to queenless bees, those that 

 have been shaken from the combs and 

 left without queen or brood for several 

 hours, until the work is well under way; 

 then put the cells in the upper story of 

 an ordinary" colony, with a queen-exclud- 

 er below the upper story. He says that 

 hopelessly queenless bees will work with 

 great vim for the first day or two, giving 



the larvte abundance of food, and a good 

 send-off, and shaping up the cells. Then 

 their anxiety wears off, and bees of an 

 ordinary colony, above an excluder, will 

 "beat the others all hollow on the home 

 stretch." 



\Vm. a. Selser, wife and little girl, of 

 Philadelphia, are pictured in a late issue 

 of the American Bee Journal; and the 

 editor gives a very interesting, accompa- 

 nying sketch. Mr. Selser probably sells 

 more honey at retail, or furnishes it to re- 

 tail dealers in shape for retailing, than 

 any other man. His honey is heated and 

 bottled in Muth jars, all the work of bot- 

 tling being done in the month of August. 

 This year he had 24 hands working for 

 him at one time bottling honey. The 

 bottles are sealed with a special kind of 

 wax, then a tin foil cap put on, and a 

 dark label with gilt le' ters completes the 

 job. His wagons for delivering are the 

 finest I have ever seen — plate glass and 

 gilt letters playing no small part. 



thp: best pr,ACE for having oueen- 



CEI.LS BUIET. 



Dr. Miller and the editor of Gleanings 

 both have expressed themselves as be- 

 lieving that it is important to have queen- 

 cells built between combs having unseal- 

 ed larva; — that is, when those cell-cups 

 are used a la Doolittle. Mr. R. L. Tay- 

 lor, in the last Review, asks why, if the 

 colony is strong enough to rear queens. 

 I have a letter from Mr. W. H. Pridgen, 

 in which he expresses the belief that be- 

 tween sealed brood is a better place for 

 the building of queen-cells. He says he 

 finds more bees clustered over sealed 

 brood than over unsealed brood; and calls 

 attention to the fact that natural cells are 

 not always built among unsealed brood. 

 Continuing, he says: "If two cows give 

 milk, and one has been recently milked, 

 and the other has not, I would go to the 

 one that had not, if I wanted milk. See . 

 the point?" 



