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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. is 



soon have a great many more. I should be 

 g-lad to introduce him, but the photo was too 

 poor to reproduce. 



Another bee-keeper in the immediate vi- 

 cinitj' was Mr. H. F. Dolson, who has 250 

 colonies. He hailed originally from Wis- 

 consin; but, disappointed on account of poor 

 seasons, he had moved westward with his 

 famil3'. The day we called on him he had 

 just moved the bees from an out-location to 

 his home, and had just arranged them in 

 order under his bee-sheds as we came up. 

 You will note in the photo, Fig. 2, that he 

 is in the act of taking off the covers, and 

 removingthe screens and the binding-strips. 

 Mr. Rohrig and I joked him a little be- 

 cause he was using the old-fashioned un- 

 spaced Langstroth frames — frames that he 

 had to fasten with numerous sticks pushed 

 down between. We recommended him to 



use Hoffman frames — those that did not re- 

 quire special fastening, and which could 

 be handled as easily and rapidly as the 

 old unspaced frames. Mr. Dolson explain- 

 ed that he began with such frames, and 

 could not afford to change. 



Not being able to secure a satisfactory 

 photo of him with his veil on, under the 

 shed, I asked that I might have the privi- 

 lege of kodaking him rough and ready, just 

 as he was when working among the bees. 

 Complying with my request, he stepped to 

 the house and "posed" in an easy chair. 

 The ever ready kodak clicked, and here we 

 have him in Fig. 3. 



We next took the road again. Just as 

 we were getting into the wagon another 

 Wisconsin bee-keeper, Mr. Wm. Lossing, 

 and daughter, drove up, having just come 

 from town. It was then toward night, and 



FIG. 4.— 'WM. LOSSING AND FAMILY, ALL OF WHOM ARE EXPERT BEE-KEEPERS. 



