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AT MR. UHRLAUB'S APIARY. 

 An open hive of bees full to overflowing. 



door life. Even good work with chick- 

 ens, if done in the right spirit of in- 

 terest in the chickens themselves as 

 well as in the dollars produced, is 

 good ornithology. 



Most of the interest in insects, of 

 course, is with our insect enemies, for 

 example, the good work that the Frost 

 and Bartlett Company is doing in try- 

 ing to prevent insects from devastating 

 trees and various other plants. But we 

 have with us a pioneer in the promot- 

 ing and furthering of the activities of 

 one delightful form of insect. This is 

 Mr. L. C. Root, of Stamford, Connec- 

 ticut, with his honeybees. There was 

 a time not many years ago, when Mr. 

 Root was almost alone in the local 

 field for real interest in honeybees. Of 

 course, for decades there have been 

 farmers who have kept a few colonies 

 in old claptrap box-hives, giving them 

 but little more attention than to shake 

 them down to the ground in May, and 

 along in November to put the hive on 

 a hole in the ground with sulphur in it. 



But with Mr. Root's coming to Fair- 

 field Countv a new era besfan. Here is 



a man who not only loves milk and 

 honey, but the cows and the bees, and 

 he has taught us to give them the care 

 that would naturally be the result of 

 such love. Furthermore, he wanted to 

 inspire everybody with appreciation of 

 milk and honey and of their producers. 

 I am inclined to think that bees are a 

 little nearer to his heart than the cows. 

 He undoubtedly lays more stress upon 

 the product of the cow than on the 

 cows themselves. But with the honey- 

 bee it is different. He evidently likes 

 the bees for themselves, regardless of 

 their products. He has been active in 

 interesting many people in honeybees 

 and the editor of this magazine is 

 proud to call himself a convert to bee 

 culture and a pupil of Mr. Root's in 

 their study. There is hardly a bee- 

 keener in this part of Fairfield County 

 that does not owe something directly 

 or indirectly to Mr. Root. 



Among his most recent pupils are 

 the following: 



John C. Uhrlaub, 



Wm. B. Pierce, 



Robert M. Gillespie. 



