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No. 11.— Showing- the interior of the honfj-house 

 which forms part of the 3-story portion of the house 

 shown in Fig. 10. This extracting-room or store- 

 room is 24x10 feet; and directly over the cel'ar, in 

 tlie floor of it, we have four trap-doors about 10 feet 

 aiiart, in size 2x2' i feet, directly over the bees. 

 These we can easily open to any size of hole from a 

 little crack to the whole space, 2x3^2 feet, which al- 

 lows all impure air to pass off into the room above. 

 We c;in also put a (luilt in the place of the large door 

 at the south end of the cellar, which gives fine ven- 

 tilaticn into the tank-room and up the stairway into 

 the shop, and up a garret. We have two pipe-holes 

 in the chimney, one of which is always open, and 

 makes a strong current of all foul air out of the 

 building. This steadyandgradual ventilation of the 

 cellar into these two large rooms, one at the end and 

 the other directly over the cellar, keeps the air as 

 fi'csh and healthy where the bees are as it is out- 

 doors. 



No. 12. — Represented in this picture are school- 

 teachers from all parts of the United States in the 

 act of holding comb-frames coveted with adhering 

 bees. These teachers were part of the summer 

 school (1905) of Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio, 

 where they had been taking instruction in "Nature 

 Study," under the instruction of Dr. E. F. l^igelow, 

 S:amford, Conn., editor of the Nature Department 

 of St. Nicholas Magazine. Dr. Bigelow occupies a 

 sitting posture in the middle foreground with his 

 left foot resting under his right knee. The illustra- 

 tion affords a very striking proof of the gentle 

 nature of the red clover strain of Italian bees. The 

 picture was taken after their flrst lesson in bee. 

 keeping. 



No. 13.— The honey exhibit made by William E. 

 Prisk, of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, at the State 

 Fair. It might be termed a model exhibit; and any 

 person wishing to make an exhibit at some local fair 

 can obtain ideas from it that will prove useful. 

 Fairs are an excellent means of advertising honey 

 in a very satisfactory manner, as tlie honey sold 

 quite frequently pays all expenses, and, in addition, 

 customers are gained who will be steady buyers for 

 years after. 



No. 14.— This is a view of the Wessing Brothers' 

 apiary, near Nicolaus, Cal., taken by E. R. Root in 

 1901. The great elevation of the hives is on account 

 of high water there at certain seasons. 



No. 15.— The view here shown is that of The A. I. 

 Root Company's apiary, or, rather, bee-breeding 

 farm at Salem, N. J., where great numbers of bees 

 are bred for sale to their regular customers. The 

 region has a mild climate with many nectar bearing 

 flowers in the immediate vicinity. In addition, the 

 bees are steadily fed by means of tiie Alexander 

 feeder, so as to stimulate brood-rearing to the great- 

 est possible extent. No combs are used except those 

 made on full sheets of foundation properly wired for 

 transportation. The company has found it better to 

 do this tlian to buy bees from the t)rdinary farmer 

 bee-keepers, whose combs often contain large 

 patches of drone-comb, and besides are irregular 

 and unwired. On this bee-farm sugir is conveited 

 into bees in a wholesale manner. 



. No. 16.— A view of the bee-breeding apiary of The 

 A. I. Root Co., at Salem, New Jersey. The purpose 

 of the high board fence is to screen off the wind, as 

 the country is flat and the wii.ds are high at certain 

 seasons of the year. The bees that are reared arc 



distributed over the eastern and southwestern 

 States. 



No. 17.— This apiary is owned by an amateur, Mr. 

 Chas. G. Macklin, of Morrison, Illinois. The hives 

 are not all shown, for he has over 100 colonies equal- 

 ly well i>laeed as the; ones shown in this view. Mr. 

 Macklin is a good specimen of the modern amateur 

 bee-keeper, for he not only keeps a large number of 

 bees but makes them pay a profit. 



No. 18.— This picture shows a glimpse of one of the 

 most important apiaries in F orida— tliat of W. 8. 

 Halt. At the left is a section of bee-sheds covered 

 by scuppernong grapevines. This kind of grape 

 grows enormously, and is going over the palmetto- 

 trees, shutting off' the view beyond. This picture 

 was taken .July 17, 1890. The principal ol).iect in tak- 

 ing it was to show a cabbage palmetto in full bloom, 

 but the buds were not perfected. You will notice 

 Mr. Hart holding a sprig of the bloom over his head. 

 This will give an idea of its size and form. Mr. 

 Hart's reports from this apiary are among the 

 laigest and most astonishing the world has ever 

 seen. In 1894 he received from one hive bhi)i lbs., 

 and averasred 355 lbs. from IKi colonies. 



No. 19. — This view represents the apicult jral ex- 

 hibit of the authors of this book at the Omaha expo- 

 sition. It iacluded a general list of all the apiarian 

 implements in general use, and the story is better 

 told by the camera than by the pen. The education- 

 al benefits arising from the.se exhibits is great. Af- 

 ter the above view was taken, a still larger exhibit 

 was made by the same company at the great Pan- 

 American exposition in Buffalo, in 1901. 



No. 20.— This shows a general view of .1. F. Mcln- 

 tyre's apiary, located about three miles from "Ven- 

 tura, Cal , on the Big Sespe River. Those who have 

 the older editions of tliis work will remember a 

 wood engraving of this api;iry, then owned by the 

 fatherin-law of Mr. Mclntyrc, R. Wilkin, a name 

 known the world over among bee-keepers. Mr. 

 Mclntyre keeps track of his colonies entirely by the 

 use of a record-book. The hives are all painted 

 white, and look like a miniature city. The surround- 

 ing mountains form a very picturesque feature in 

 the scene. At the right in No. 10 is the honey-house. 

 At the left of the honey-house are three large tanks, 

 not shown, holding four tons each. A full descrip- 

 tion of this, probably the most important apiary in 

 California, will be found in Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 Oct. 1, 1891. 



No. 31.— We have here a very fine view of one of 

 the largest, if not the largest, queen-rearing apiaries 

 in the southern hemisphere. It is opeiated by Mr. 

 H. L. Jones, of Goodna, Queensland, Aus. This api- 

 ary contains about 300 colonies; and while it pre- 

 sents a remarkably neat and orderly appearance, 

 its owner says it was not " got up for the occasion," 

 as a photographer came along unexpectedly. It is 

 very seldom that one sees an apiary in such trim 

 neatness in its usual working oider. On the other 

 hand it is not uncommon to fee hives in the average 

 yard more or less tipptd sidewise, a little out of 

 square with the points of the compass, weather- 

 beaten, unpainted, besides quite an array of old 

 brood-frames, sticks, old covers, old bottom-boards, 

 and other things too numerous to mention. I do not 

 mean to say that bee-keepers of this countrj- are 

 disorderly; but in the rush of the seiison, wlien 

 every thing is "hurrah Loysl" and "anything and 



