room — soinethiug we have never enjoyed 

 before, and something that is altogether too 

 scarce in homes of many people who can 

 afford such things better than we can. 



In regard to wintering, I prefer the 

 permamently packed hive both for winter 

 and summer, and the first cost of such hives 

 is all that would keep me from using them 

 altogether. Two years ago I purchased a 

 camera; and, although the veriest greenhorn 

 in photographic matters, for some reason I 

 have had fair success in its use, and very 

 rarely fail in getting a good negative. 



Fig. 1 shows part of one apiary in which 

 the bees are in the kind of hives 1 prefer — 

 always ready for winter in so far as pack- 

 ing is concerned, except placing a cushion 

 of sawdust on top in November. The loca- 

 tion shown is a natural beauty spot. Fig. 2 

 shows a view from this yard looking south. 

 Fig. 3 shows jiart of one apiary which has 

 250 colonies in it. It is needless to say this 

 picture was taken a year ago. We didn't 

 need to pile supers very high in 1914, al- 

 though this yard was the only one that gave 

 us any surplus at all this year — about 50 

 lbs. per colony. The yard is sheltered on all 

 sides as shown, with timber on three sides 

 and high rocks on the other. Fig. 4 shows 

 a small corner of this same apiary packed 

 for winter. I do not like the four-hive cases. 

 They are altogether too bulky to handle; 

 and then, again, I like a south entrance. 

 As will be seen, the cases we use here take 

 but two hives each. Fig. 5 shows the same 

 apiary when covered with snow a year ago. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



At this date (Jan. 2, 1015) they are covered 

 miicli deeper than the picture sliows. The 

 thermometer goes to 40 below zero here, so 

 I am not worrying about snow over hives. 

 Fig. 6 shows the motor boat we use at that 

 yard. The gentleman at the right is my 

 father, who stays at the yard up there dur- 

 ing the summer, my son also being thei'e in 

 the busy season. Fig. 7 shows my youngest 

 lad, my two eldest girls, and a cousin, near 

 a trout stream 25 miles from home at early 

 morn of a summer's day. One of my great 

 weaknesses is a love for fishing — especially 

 fishing for the " sjoeckled beauties," and on 

 the occasion on which the picture was taken 

 the other members of the party Avere per- 

 suaded to go for a picnic so that the pater 

 could have a day off at his beloved sport. 



I might yet add, in connection with the 

 boat shown, that it is used to go to town 

 five miles away for groceries, etc. Then it 

 is often used for pleasure as well, as a run 

 down the river to the bay at the close of a 

 day's work is splendid recreation, to say 

 nothing of doing a bit of fishing now and 

 then as occasion offers. It is 24 feet long, 

 and has a twin-cylinder six-horse-joower en- 

 gine, capable of developing about twelve 

 miles an hour. In locations where navigable 

 waters are within reach, this means of loco- 

 motion is far ahead of the auto in many 

 respects, especially in economy of first cost, 

 ui^keep, and roads. The latter never get 

 " muddy," at least with the boat, even if 

 they are sometimes " rough." 



Markham. Out. 



A REMAMICAIBLE START OF A REMAMKABLE CAREER 



BY DR. C. C. MILLER 



When I was a boy I had a bumblebees' 

 nest in a cigar-box up in the haymow. I 

 don't think that had any thing to do with 

 my being a beekeeper. Later I helped my 

 stepfather carry home, one night, a colony 

 of bees in a box hive before the days of 

 movable-frame hives. It was set on top of 

 a " bee-palace," a barn-like affair big 

 enough to hold half a dozen colonies. The 

 expectation was that the bees would build 

 down and fill the " palace," and then the 

 door could be opened and a nice cake of 

 honey cut out whenever desired. But the 

 bees didn't seem to have a full understand- 

 ing of what was expected of them, and died 

 without building down. I don't remember 

 that I had the slightest interest in the bees 

 or their untimely demise. 



Not till I was thirty years old w-as any 

 interest in bees awakened. That was in 

 1861, w-hen on a day next to the Fourth of 



July a swarm of bees came sailing across 

 Marengo. Seeing them, my wife began to 

 throw water upon them. I don't know how 

 much effect that had, but at any rate she 

 got those bees into a sugar-barrel. I was 

 in Chicago at the time; but when I got home 

 I began at once to be interested in beekeep- 

 ing. A barrel didn't seem the best lodging 

 for bees, and the next spring I made box 

 liives, Quinby style, and had them occupied. 

 Holes were bored tlu'ough the top of the 

 hive, and six-pound boxes \yere placed on 

 top, with a telescope cover over all. 



The bees I had at that time were such a.s 

 probably most of the beekeejiers of th*^ 

 )ii-esent day have never seen — ]naie, unadul- 

 terated blacks. These remained in their 

 ])urity for five years, when in 1866 I got 

 my first Italian queen. That gave me an 

 opportunity such as cannot easily be had at 

 the present day to know the difference be- 



