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protits aie cijuctirned. On top of a hill is 

 not a good local ion unless well shellored by 

 trees. 



T ha\e also had a number of letters from 

 beekeepers about fences. 



Several ask about combs melting down in 

 hot weather if there is a fence about the 

 bees. We have had a temperature, in the 

 shade of 06 degrees. I have never had any 



combs melt down; but I have an entrance lo 

 my hives 1% in. deep by the width of the 

 hive. I do not know what 1 might have had 

 with an ordinary entrance if I could imag- 

 ine myself foolish enough to use one. Build 

 3'our fence so you can take out every second 

 board in the summer, and plenty of air will 

 pass through the apiary. 

 Brantford, Canada. 



THE EDITOR'S PLEASURE-TEIP DO^ 

 An Interview with O. O. 



BY E. R. ROOT 



1 was unable to finish my Florida articles 

 last spring owing to the lateness of the sea- 

 sou ; so I decided to defer the publication of 

 the remainder till the following winter, 

 when the thoughts of all beedom are again 

 turned toward Florida and the Southland 

 generally. 



Last winter, while visiting with my par- 

 ents at Bradentown, I received a letter from 

 Ml-. W. A. Selser, from his home in Florida, 

 on the east coast, where he goes every winter 

 to recuperate. In this letter he referred to 

 our projected cruise down the southeast 



would fish and gather oysters on the way. 

 It is not necessary to go into further de- 

 tails; but the result was that Mr. Selser 

 chartered a cruiser from his neighbor, Capt. 

 F. S. Slifer, or Dr. Slifer, a specialist of 

 Philadelphia, who was also spending his 

 winter in Florida. The doctor had never 

 cruised down among the Keys, and was 

 willing to take our party for a very moder- 

 ate sum. 



We started from Stuart about the 10th 

 of March, last year, with a good supply of 

 eatables and a cook aboard — one who knew 



Fio. 1. — The 40-ft. gasoline cruiser in which the editor of Gleanings and party cruised up and down the 

 Indian River and inland waters of the southeast coast of Florida, studying beekeeping conditions. 



coast of Florida, and he was particularly 

 anxious that Mr. G. M. (iray and his wife 

 (who were with me on the trip) should go 

 along to make up the party with him and 

 Mrs. Selser. As I had covered a portion of 

 the east coast northward, Mr. Selser's gen- 

 eral proposition, as may be surmised, was 

 veiT attractive — especially so as he said we 



how to do things up right. See Fig. 1. I 

 enjoyed drinking in great drafts of sea- 

 breezes, for I had been sick with chills and 

 fever; but Mrs. Selser said she was going 

 to cure me of all these, and she did. She 

 put me on a diet of fish and eggs, oysters, 

 grapefruit, and oranges. The two last 

 mentioned were served five or six times a 



