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grace an unwashed mother-in-law, grimed and travel- 
stained, addressing herself, in most unpleasant fashion, 
to the olfactories of her new feeders and attendants. 
The older bee-keepers will corroborate this position, 
as they will remember how frequently a stock would 
accept a despised black after slaying a highly-prized 
Italian. 
Let me here point out, in a parenthesis, how very 
much Mr. Benton has facilitated the introduction of 
foreign queens by his admirable postal-box (Fig. 91). 
Fig. 91.— Benton’s Queen Postal-box (Scale, |). 
/c, Food-chamber ; 0, 0, Openings between Chambers ; vh, Ventilating-holes. 
Two auger holes, communicating with each other and 
the food-chamber {fc) by openings {0, 0), give suf- 
ficient room for the queen and about five-and-twenty 
attendants. The food, consisting of Good candy, is 
covered down by a piece of thin foundation, beneath 
which it remains without soiling, although immediately 
accessible to the bees. The ventilating-holes {vh, vh) 
are made at the bottom of the hollows {h, h), so that, 
as previously explained, other packages cannot close 
them.. Paper is neatly placed over the top, and upon 
