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a few Italian bees by Mr. Samuel B. Parsons, of Flushing, New York, 

 Mr. Cary visited him and spent the summer with him in rearing and 

 experimenting with Italian bees. Since then he has labored to dissemL 

 nate this bee in purity. 

 After one failure Mr. Cary succeeded in procuring a colony of Egyp- 



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tian bees, but finding them inferior to the Italians, he abandoned them 

 without an attempt to sell. 



Though sixty-four years of age he is still much interested in the in 

 troduction of new races of bees and in furthering in all honorable ways 

 improvements in bee-culture. 



