1889 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



665 



" Yes, do. I thought of her when I was making it. 

 Good-by." 



"Good -afternoon, Whittier. Here area few young 

 queens I have brought you to introduce here where 

 you have killed off old ones. They are daughters 

 of that choice queen I have talked so much about. 

 They are very promising young queens." 



" Sure enough, Mr. M.. they are beauties in form, 

 though I have seen much brighter-colored queens." 



"It is not the color 1 am after; it is the quality; 

 though the old queen's workers 6how the three 

 bands yet, instead of being a bright yellow they are 

 nearly brown; but they do get the honey, and that 

 is what I want." 



"There, 1 promised you a picture of that group of 

 my bee-help, taken three years ago, and here it is. 



tons of comb honey in one-pound sections. The 

 next season (188(i) the apiary contained 117 colonies, 

 and she got only 250 lbs. of not very nice honey. 

 She has since passed to the other shore. 



" The next is Charles McGee, who commenced to 

 work for me when I first started the supply-busi- 

 ness. One day I got him to go to my then only out 

 apiary to help si. ingle the new edition to the honey- 

 house, it being a slack time in the shop, and at the 

 height of the swarming season he became wild 

 with excitement in seeing swarm after swarm come 

 out; 15 swarms issued >tbat] day. Finally, while we 

 were eating our lunch at noon he offered me $5.00 

 for the next swarm that came out, which offer I ac- 

 cepted. In a few moments out came a very large 

 swarm of pure Italians. I put them in a box, and 



MANUM S SIDE-HILL APIARY. 



The first one on the right, standing near the row of 

 Chapman honey - plants, is E. O. Tuttle. He is a 

 young man from Massachusetts, who worked for 

 me six seasons. He is somewhere in New York 

 running a photograph gallery. The next is Duane 

 Wcatherbee, of Moriah Center, N. Y. He was with 

 me two seasons, and is now at home on his farm. 

 The next is Leslie Bissonette. He commenced to 

 work for me when a mere boy, packing sections in 

 boxes for shipment. He worked his way along up 

 until I sold my supply business to Drake & Smith. 

 He was my foreman. Since then he has worked for 

 me at the bee-business. 



"The next is Mrs. Eugene D. Sturdivant, a widow 

 lady who had charge of one of my apiaries two sea- 

 sons. The yard that she ran for me in 1885 contain- 

 ed 96 colonies, and she took from that apiary five 



at night he carried them home. He now has about 

 175 colonies in two apiaries, and is a very success- 

 ful apiarist. 



"The next is Henry Isham, who has been with me 

 off and on for over 25 years. For the past six years 

 he has run my New Haven apiary on shares. He 

 has half of the honey, without any increase of the 

 bees. He does all of the work there, such as keep- 

 ing the hives painted and repaired, etc. I furnish 

 all supplies at cost, and he pays for half ; he also 

 pays for half the sugar fed to the bees. 



" The next two are your humble servant and his 

 son Fred— at the extreme left. Fred has taken but 

 very little interest in bees until the past two or 

 three years, since which he has run one of my apia- 

 ries during the honey season, and he is doing very 

 well indeed; but even now he prefers to handle 



