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from the field. Then it will be practically certain to swarm when 
the first virgin emerges, and you can leave the swarm on the same 
stand from which it issued, and set A in place of C. Repeat the 
same thing each time A swarms, setting it successively in place of 
D, E, and F. 
Q. I am thinking of trying the following plan this season: I 
will find and destroy the old, inferior queen, and introduce a 
sealed cell (in a cell-protector) at the same time I remove the old 
queen. Can this be done safely? Or had I better wait about 
placing the cell until two or three days after removing the old 
queen? 
A. Very likely your plan will succeed. Waiting two or three 
days would make the bees more willing to accept a cell, but in a 
West cell-protector the cell ought, to be safe anyhow. The cell 
ought to be well advanced; then if it does not hatch out all 
right, it will pay to have on hand other cells so that you can de- 
stroy all “wild” cells (those that the bees start on their own 
brood), and give another cell of good stock. 
Rheumatism. — Q. I have read that some people were cured of 
rheumatism by the stings of bees. I have a customer who is very 
fond of honey, and as she has the rheumatism badly, and is under 
the doctor’s care, she is advised against eating honey. She was 
also at a Michigan bathing sanitarium and not allowed to eat 
honey there. 
A. The fact that some people are cured of rheumatism by 
means of stings does not necessarily prove that eating honey is 
good for rheumatism. Honey and bee-poison are two very differ- 
ent things. Yet I have never understood that the use of honey 
was contra-indicated in rheumatic cases. It is possible that in 
the case in question some particular condition makes it advisable 
to deny the use of all sweets; but it is safe to say that if they are 
at all allowed it will be better to use honey than sugar. That able 
authority, Dr. Kellogg, at the head of one of the most noted 
sanitariums in the world, endorses the use of honey as being more 
readily assimilable than sugar. 
Rietsche Press. — Q. Do you know anything about the Rietsche 
press for making foundation? 
A. Thousands of Rietsche presses are in use in Europe, one 
reason being that so much of the foundation on the market there 
is adulterated. In this country there is no trouble about buying 
pure foundation, and although a few years ago a number had 
machines to make foundation, nearly all buy now. 
