November, 1916. 



American line Journal 



In this small yard, located in the cen- 

 ter of a city of 80,001) or more, we had 

 an object lesson of the possibility of 

 keeping bees without fear of stings. 

 Over 75 persons were present, with 

 many ladies and children and no one 

 was stung, although people passed 

 back and forth in front of the hives 

 and a luncheon was served among 

 them. 



Dr. Headlee, State Entomologist, was 

 present and spoke encouragingly of the 

 prospect of beekeeping in New Jersey. 

 There are but few large producers of 

 honey in the State, but bees are profit- 

 able and are needed for the immense 

 amount of domestic fruit blossoms to 

 become fertilized. The fruit growers 

 as well as the beekeepers realize their 

 usefulness in this respect. 



An interesting implement shown was 

 a circular bee-escape, by C. D. Cheney, 

 of Hoboken. This implement which 

 allows the bees to issue forth in all 

 directions might give a little more ven- 

 tilation to the super than the standard 

 pattern, but its cost would probably be 

 greater. 



The Diener method of watering bees 

 deserves a mention. All beekeepers 

 know that unless bees have an accus- 



Trough Showing Method of Watering 



Bees at the Diener Apiary 

 It keeps bees from neighbors water pumps 



tomed spot to get their supply of water 

 at breeding time, they are likely to an- 

 noy neighbors at wells or cisterns. 

 The Dieners have a city water pipe 

 faucet dripping very slowly into a 

 trough, and the water runs thence to a 

 pile of rocks set on a hollow stone. 

 This is sufficient to supply their bees 

 with water and they do not annoy the 

 neighbors, although in the heart of a 

 city of 80,000. 



It is out of the question to mention 

 all the nice people I met or all the 

 questions discussed, but I must speak 

 of Mr. H. C. White, a New York City 

 attorney living in Plainfield, N. J., an 

 apiarist and a member of the State 

 Board of Conservation, who expressed 

 his desire to help beekeeping in the 

 State by all means in his power. 



An acknowledgement is due to the 

 Diener family for their generous en- 

 tertainment of the members. They 

 supplied a lunch for the 75 people pres- 

 ent and looked after the comfort of all 

 as if all were members of their family. 

 Such hospitality is to be remembered. 



Elizabeth is but 15 miles from New 

 York City, and that same evening I was 

 " at home " in a room on the 12th floor 

 of a sky-scraper. Modern buildings 

 have conveniences which would have 

 been luxuries 50 years ago. A room 

 with bath has become a necessity to 

 the traveler, but it is in temperatures of 

 90 degrees or more that such a conven- 

 ience is best appreciated. So is " ice 

 water on tap" in the rooms, a still 

 more modern accommodation. 



I have no love for large cities. Seen 

 from a distance they seem to be made 

 of tall boxes on end and little boxes 

 lying flat by the side of the tall ones, 

 all with numerous breathing holes ar- 

 ranged in rows, which they call win- 

 dows. When these huge piles of brick, 

 stone and iron become heated, life in 

 their interior can only be likened to 

 life in a steam laundry, with bad air 

 added. So with your leave, I will quit 

 New York and go on to fresher scenes. 



The only visits I made in New York 

 before leaving, the next day, were to 

 the well-known dealers in bee goods, 

 J. H. M. Cook and I. J. Stringham, both 

 busy in the busiest part of the metrop- 

 olis. 



I had received a hearty invitation 

 from friend Allan Latham, of Norwich- 

 town, Conn., to stop with him over- 

 night previous to attending the Con- 

 necticut beekeepers' meeting which 

 was to be held at Storrs on Aug. .i and 

 4, and to which he expected to go in 

 his automobile. All our readers know 

 of Latham, as one of the liveliest, widest 

 awake beekeepers in the United States. 

 If you have forgotten what he is cap- 

 able of sustaining in the way of force- 

 ful suggestions, look up his article on 

 " Comb Honey by Parcel Post," in the 

 March, 1914, number, or his testimonial 

 to the usefulness of the yellow-jacket 



Harold Hornor of Mt. Holly. N. 

 Beside a "Skyscraper." 



AT THE HORNOR APIARY. MT. HOLLY, N, J., 

 The colonies were tiered three or four stories higii 



in the April, 1910, number of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



Norwichtown is a suburb of Norwich, 

 less than 15 miles from the Long Is- 

 land Sound at New London. My way 

 was by the sea shore, through Stam- 

 ford, and I regretted to pass by without 

 calling upon our old friend, L. C. Root, 

 son-in-law of the veteran Moses Quinby 

 and author of " Quinby's New Beekeep- 

 ing." But I was later to have the op- 

 portunity, as will be shown. 



I had wired Latham the hour of my 

 arrival and he was at the train, with 

 his two young sons. He did not have 

 any auto, only a Ford, but with that 

 faithful and hard-working little toy we 

 were soon at his home. The first thing 

 he did was to take me to the apiary, of 

 course, but we were intercepted by 

 Mrs. Latham, who came out of a side 

 door and smilingly introduced herself 

 to me, remarking at the same time that 

 Mr. L. cared more for his bees than 

 for his wife. Latham did not protest, 

 how could he ? The evidence was 

 against him, 



Mr. Latham is a lover of Nature and 

 a student. He is almost as much of a 

 crank on the study of bugs and plants 

 as our co-worker Pellett, although I 

 doubt whether he has ever gone as far 



