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into a revolving machine fitted with wire 

 baskets to hold them, and the honey is 

 thrown out of the cells against the sides, 

 runs down and through a faucet into cases 

 in which it is kept for sale, and the emptied 

 combs are put right back into our hive to be 

 filled again. 



My autobiography, thus given, is that of 

 the rearing and ordinary experiences of 

 Honey Bee Queens, raised in comparatively 

 small numbers in full colonies. My history, 

 as I am controlled by my Masters in 

 America, is such that I am made to wonder- 

 fully increase my powers of furnishing 

 them Queens for sale to Bee Keepers all 

 over the world. By this method I am liter- 

 ally "the mother of thousands of millions." 

 For, instead of superintending the develop- 

 ment of one Queen Cell at a time, or a small 

 number of such managed colonies of an 

 apiary, thousands of my eggs are trans- 

 ferred with little wooden spoons from our 

 cells into artificial wax or wooden cells 



