January, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



19 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



pean foul brood, and this year I bought 36 

 queens for 30 colonies. Hereafter I expect 

 to get 50 per cent more honey eaeli year be- 

 cause of the experience I had with foul 

 brood. So, cheer up, you European foul- 

 brooders. Buy good queens and be happy. 

 Hamnionton, N. J. C. E. Fowler. 



BEES KEPT IN A CITY FOR YEARS 



How a Trade Worker Has Loved and Kept His 

 Bees Efficiently 



My father, T. O'Donnell, is now 71 years 

 of age, and has kept bees since he was about 

 15 years of age, inheriting the fondness for 

 them from his father in Ireland, who also 

 acquired his knowledge from his parents be- 



distance (not more than 100 feet) at which 

 they are located from a city school of 1,300 

 pupils, my father's home being at 815 So. 

 Kildare Ave., Chicago. We have never had 

 a single complaint from the school or the 

 neighbors. 



Scores of beekeepers, some amateurs and 

 some very successful, residing within a 

 radius of 100 miles from our home will 

 recognize this apiary as the one which 

 served as a "hotbed," as it were, for them 

 to draw upon after one or more failures in 

 their 'initial attempts to master the art of 

 beekeeping. These men, no doubt, will give" 

 testimony to the fact that the old gentleman 

 in the picture gave them many good, com- 

 mon-sense pointers to help them attain the 

 success they now enjoy. 



Mr. O'Donnell's apiary which lias lont? proved a success altho kept within the city limits of Chicago. 



fore him. Altho working at a trade until 

 one year ago, he has had as many as 52 colo- 

 nies of bees, and seldom if ever lost a colony 

 thru outdoor wintering. Every fall he has 

 pursued the practice of filling the supers 

 with dry leaves, hay, or straw, and placing 

 them over the hive, also regulating the en- 

 trance by means of movable blocks to suit 

 all changes of weather conditions. The hives 

 are packed around the outside with hay and 

 stand on their summer stands for the win- 

 ter. 



Some knowledge of the quietness of the 

 bees can be gained by observing the short 



Bee-veils and gloves are seldom used in 

 our apiary, and it is interesting to know 

 that about 90 per cent of our swarms have 

 been hived by my mother while my father 

 was at work. 



It has always been my father 's rule never 

 to mind how much honey he gets, but how 

 well are the bees supplied with it for their 

 long winter rest. Tliis only goes to prove 

 that he has a natural fondness for bees, al- 

 ways with an eye to their comfort and 

 progress, rather than the financial gain to be 

 acquired thru them. 



Chicago, Ills. John C. O 'Donnell. 



