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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar, 1 



around ■■ for an invitation, but he didn't in- 

 vite. Finally I g'ot Chambers to put the 

 question to him straight. 



"Oh, no!"' said he: "I do not want any 

 bee-man — much less the editor of a bee-pa- 

 per, prowling around my place with a ko- 

 dak. It looks too bad, and is not fixed up 

 for company. ' ' 



But Chambers winked at me and said, 

 "We will go anA'how,"' and we did. I 

 think it was the next da3' on our way back 

 to Tempe when we stopped off at Mike's 

 headquarters, for he was baching it. When 

 he saw us coming he said something about 

 a bad penn}' returning, and that he wasn't 

 looking for us; but that made us all the 

 more anxious to prowl around. Between 

 two of his apiaries he had a great pile of 



\ariety of odd sizes, for in Arizona there 

 are several kinds of frames in use. Tie 

 two most prominent are the Langstroth and 

 the Nippert frame. The last named is a 

 verj- small frame, 10X10. Besides these 

 there are a few other odd sizes. Of course 

 our friend had to take every thing just as 

 it came. He is too progressive a bee-keep- 

 er to have three or four different sizes of 

 frames among his bees: so what did he do 

 but toss all the odd-sized combs, as fast as 

 the brood hatched out, into that mammoth 

 solar wax-extractor which you see just back 

 of him in the picture? Then he would 

 transfer the bees to a standard hive and 

 combs. I think the pile on which he stands 

 represents the year's business of buying 

 up and transferring. 



MIKE wall's pile OF TR.'i.XSFERREr) FRMIES; AX OBJECT-LESSON IN ODD-SIZED 



FRAMES AND HIVES. 



brood-frames of various sizes, as well as 

 parts cf hives. He tried to steer us awaj- 

 from this object-lesson, but we did not 

 "steer." I told Chambers that I wanted 

 Mike right on top of that pile: "but." said 

 he, with a wink, "it will take better men 

 than A'ou are to put me on it." and it would, 

 no doubt. But by dint of coaxing I got 

 Mike and Mr. Chambers on top, and took a 

 snap shot or two. The result is before you. 

 Mr. Wall said something to the effect that 

 I must not use that for Gli:anings, but I 

 made no promise. 



I have already explained that our friend 

 was in the business of buying up apiaries, 

 and then not only making them paj- for 

 themselves but pay for their keeping. But 

 as a result of his buying, he got a great 



As firewood is scarce in Arizona he finds 

 that these old frames make splendid kin- 

 dling-wood; and all he had to do was to go 

 to the pile for fuel when he wanted to make 

 a good hot fire to fry his beefsteak. 



That our friend is an up-to-date bee-keep- 

 er will be further evident bj- a photo of him 

 holding one of his combs with Doolittle 

 queen-cells on it. He is a reader of Glean- 

 ings, and I found he was able to produce 

 as fine a lot of cells as Doolittle or any- 

 bodj- else can turn out. 



THE BOV bee-keeper's WONDl-RFVL 

 RECORD. 



It will be remembered that Mr. Cham- 

 bers, of whom I have been speaking thus 

 far in this article, is the boy bee-keeper 



