January, 1916. 



American ^ae Journal 



THE KOCH YARD-ONE OF THE TWO "^ARDS WHERE THE FALL FLOW IS 



DEPENDABLE 



tures which may produce unmixed 

 white elover in the spring and very 

 ample persicaria bloom in August. The 

 lowlands in the last days of summer are 

 covered with Spanish-needles, also 

 called bur marigold. 



Some localities have so ample a pro' 

 duction of honey-plants that several 

 hundred colonies thrive in the same 

 apiary. We know of two or three 

 localities in Iowa where over 500 colo- 

 nies are kept within a radius of three or 





LOADING HONEY AT AN OUTYARD 



four miles. These are privileged loca- 

 tions. The beekeeper must be the judge 

 of the capacity of his district and act 

 accordingly. It would be folly to es- 

 tablish outapiaries as long as our home 

 location can suffice. 



Dr. C. C. Miller's Personal Recollections 



Life Story of America's Best Known Beekeeper 



These notes are written at the re- 

 quest of C. P. Dadant. A carbon copy 

 is also taken for my family; which ac- 

 counts for their containing items of no 

 interest to the beekeeping public. No 

 care is taken as to literary character; 

 merely the facts. 



I was born June 10, 1831, at Ligonier, 

 Westmoreland Co., Pa., about 50 miles 

 east of Pittsburg. My father married 

 my mother. Phebe Roadman, when she 

 was 16, and I think it was something of 

 a runaway match. Father was a physi- 

 cian. Dr. Johnson Miller, born in 1798. 

 My mother was born 10 years later in 

 Westmoreland Co., Pa. Her father 

 and mother came from Germany. I 

 think my father was born in New Jer- 

 sey. Grandfather Miller, whose name 

 was Charles, brought his family from 

 New Jersey while the children were 

 young. He was a tailor, and set his 

 four sons at the same trade. It stuck 

 with his sons Jacob, Coursen, and 

 Charles, but my father ran too much to 

 books, and became a doctor. The 

 family had been Americans for genera- 

 tions, and I don't know their original 

 nationality, although I think largely 

 English. 



When I was 10 years old, my father 

 died after a short illness with pneu- 

 monia, leaving his dying injunc- 

 tion with mother that myself as 

 well as my older sister, Lizzie, and my 

 two younger sisters, Harriet and Hen- 



rietta, should have a good education. 

 This injunction my mother carried out 

 to the best of her ability. She spared 

 no self-denial that we might have the 

 best chance for an education. At the 

 time of his death my father was silent 

 partner in the firm of Hargnett & 

 Miller, which ran a general village 

 store. When the affairs of the firm 



Miller in Boyhood. 



were closed up quite a while after 

 father's death, there was little or noth- 

 ing left for the heirs; just why I don't 

 know. 



My boyhood was a care-free, happy 

 one. I went to school because I had 

 to, but I had no consuming thirst for 

 what I might acquire there. The taste 

 for study was a matter of later growth. 

 At first there was no public school; 

 ours was a " subscription " school. But 

 we had cousins some miles away who 

 were attending a public school — "free 

 school " it was called — and we chil- 

 dren thought it must be a good thing, 

 for what else could a "free school " be 

 but one in which the scholars were 

 free to whisper all they liked ? 



Even when the school became a pub- 

 lic school, there was no change in the 

 character of the school, and schools 

 were not then what they are now. 

 Spelling was well taught, better than 

 now, and I have always been proud of 

 being a good speller ; but the same 

 could not b; said of any other study, 

 although writing was a near second. 

 We had no printed copies, and no steel 

 pens. The " master" or the " mistress." 

 as the case might be, " set " the copies 

 and made or mended the pens, which 

 were of goose-quills. There was no 

 class in arithmetic. Each one did his 

 " sums " independently at his seat, with 

 perhaps an occasional scrutiny on the 

 part of the teacher, and when he met 



