GLKANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



but in huge centers of population people 

 know of honey only by hearsay. 



Here lies the key to the problem. Who 

 will open the eyes of the public? How 

 can we teach the public that honey is the 

 best of sweets? How can we make them 

 understand that children fed on honey in- 

 stead of glucose and the like will have 

 stronger kidneys and be healthier as they 

 grow up? I'll ansv/er the questions. The 



farmers' institutes, through the farm and 

 iionie journals, and county and agricultural 

 papers, should push the uses of honey in 

 all oases where sweets are consumed. Teach 

 the students in colleges and schools that 

 honey is the one true sweet that nature 

 affords, which cannot go wrong if propei'ly 

 used, provided it is well ripened and sea- 

 soned by the bees. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. 



THE "OUTLAW" 



BY HIMSELF 



On Christmas day, 1914, I took a walk in 

 the park and noticed that there was consid- 

 erable eucalyptus in bloom; and, although 

 the day was a little chilly, still there were 

 quite a few bees at work on the blossoms. 

 I examined some of the bloom and found 

 that they contained drops of honey almost 

 as large as drops of dew, proving that, for 

 the eucalyptus, warm weather is not essen- 

 tial to the secretion of honey. The walk 



The outlawed apiary, far from pryint; 



also brought to my own mind the fact that, 

 while I again became a beekeeper by the 

 merest accident, yet I have as much interest 

 in bees as ever. 



It is now a year since I related the man- 

 ner in which I became a beekeeper by find- 

 ing the small after-swarm on the pepper- 

 tree bough; of the city ordinance prohibit- 

 ing the keeping of bees; and the manner in 



which I, in my desire to avoid trouble with 

 the authorities, was at last forced to cache 

 my hive of bees on a roof. 



The year has been a fairly prosperous 

 one for me. My one colony was increased 

 to three; and while I did not give them the 

 attention that they might have had, by 

 reason of the difficulty involved in obtain- 

 ing access to the spot where the hives were 

 located, I nevertheless secured something 

 like 150 pounds of 

 comb honey, this 

 honey being in the 

 form mentioned in 

 another article. 



But to finish the 

 day, this Christmas 

 of 1914 I went up on 

 the roof and over- 

 liauled the bees 

 (think of that, you 

 anchorites of the 

 snow-bound North). 

 I found that one of 

 my three colonies 

 was at work. This 

 colony was doing 

 quite a little comb- 

 building and storing 

 considerable honey. 

 I took off thi'eei 

 frames, a total of 

 about twelve pounds, 

 from that colony. 

 This honey had been 

 gathered witlun the 

 previous six weeks, 

 and by one of the increase, the queen being 

 a daughter of the queen in the original 

 colony. The two other colonies seemed to 

 be loafing and were storing no surplus. 



As to the picture, perhaps some person 

 may take me (o task for the manner in 

 which the hives are arranged. To such I 

 wish to say that the arrangement or posi- 

 tion shown in the picture is not the regular 



