February, 1913. 



American Vae Journal 



other in different ways, perhaps by the 

 bees themselves, or may be by the bee- 

 keeper. 

 Vernon, B. C. 



Excellent Portraits of a Laying 

 Queen 



BY INC. A, DOUGLASS. 



Appreciating the fact that the Bee 

 Journal is desirous of collecting inter- 

 esting photographs on the subject 

 of bees, I am sending the enclosed, 

 showing Mr. Frohliger, of Berkeley, 

 Calif., demonstrating his colony of 

 Italian bees to a newspaper reporter, 

 and to some of the e.iiployees of the 

 largest department store in San Fran- 

 cisco, " The Emporium." 



It took Mr, Frohliger but a few min- 

 utes to persuade the gentlemen that his 

 bees were stingless (?), as you will see 

 in the picture they have succumbed to 

 his arguments by accepting a handful. 

 During his display of a week, in the 

 grocery department, he kept a 10-frame 

 standard hive on the roof for renewing 

 his exhibition. This department store 

 is in the center of San Francisco, and 

 it is interesting to state that the bees 

 stored and capped considerable honey 

 during their sojourn. 



The other pictures, No. 1 and 2, 

 show a leather-colored Italian queen 

 wandering over the comb without any 



No. I.— Notice the Queen. Presu.mably Undisturbed by the Picture-Taker. 



trace of excitement, while pursuing 

 her vocation. Near the top of picture 

 No. 3 she is seen with her body in a 

 cell, depositing an egg, with her reti- 

 nue of bees surrounding her. 



I am a back-lot bee-keeper, and have 

 7 flourishing colonies in San Francisco. 

 I enjoy the work, and find my health 

 much benefitted in the pleasure of this 

 pursuit. My one aim is to have an api- 



P^ 





No. 2.— Remarkable Photograph of a Queen on a Newly-Built Comb. 



