 "She attends personally to all shipments of bees, honey, extractors, hives, etc., to all her correspondence and her bees," noted a profile in 1873.She attended the North American Bee-Keepers Convention in Cleveland in 1871, and in Indianapolis in 1872, and was quoted as a national expert on apiary management the following year.Tupper was editor of "The Bee-Keepers' Journal" from 1873 to 1875"," and taught bee-keeping at the State Agricultural College of Iowa.