NOVEMBKR, 1919 



GLE.VNINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



719 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



now and he would wait until they did get 

 some before taking any salary. You know 

 the result before I tell it to you. They made 

 !iim secretary. Here was a man who did 

 not want the presidency, for it was under- 

 stood that the president was not to get a 

 salary when the money for this scheme came 

 rolling in. And so this obliging man was 

 soon drawing a salary of $10,000 a year? 



No, you're quite mistaken, and it shows 

 that you fellows still have a lot to learn 

 about officers of associations. There wasn 't 

 anything at all done about it. After all 

 that I've told you about associations you 

 ought to know that it was all wind. He was 

 re-elected the next year too, on more prom- 

 ises, but by the end of two years there was 

 a bigger blower on deck and he went out. 



Now I've told you the secret of success 

 as an officer. If any of you would like to 

 get such a position all you have to do is to 

 follow what I have told you. As for me, I 

 expect to get into the beekeeping game on 

 a commercial scale, and that will disqualify 

 me for office any longer than the present 

 year. If I were eligible any longer I think 

 that I would keep all this to myself, but 

 you fellows can go to it now and I '11 do all 

 I can to help. I'm very much interested in 

 associations, for it 's a great game and I 

 like to attend so that I can meet the big 

 beemen of the State; but, of course, as long 

 as the rules for election of officers are un- 

 changed we don't get any good from the 

 meetings themselves, so far as beekeeping 

 is concerned. 



Since you ask it, I suppose it ought to be 

 possible to make the organizations worth 

 while for real beekeepers, and when you 

 think that there is any hope of a change 

 I'll be glad to help you. But if you do 

 change you'll spoil a fine and very human 

 game. As I have told you success as an of- 

 ficer depends on lung power. I'd hate to try 

 to change the rules alone. 



Maryland. Phil Franklin. 



BETWEEN APARTMENT HOUSES 



Apiary of S. .J. Morrison, Chico, Calif. In the back- 

 ground is his screened 6 x 6-foot honey-hoiise and in 

 the foreground what ho mentions as " some of Mel's 

 friends with hides on stretchers." He says the 

 skunks were caught in the act. 



A Chicago Man Keeps His Colonies Where Popu- 

 lation is Dense 



A Chicago business man keeps a dozen 

 colonies of bees between two big apartment 

 buildings and just across the street from 

 several more such buildings. He lives in 

 one of the dwellings, and his bees are with- 

 in 25 feet of his kitchen door and within 10 

 feet of the sidewalk, while there is no en- 

 closing structure of any kind. This man is 

 George Theodore Halla. He has been rais- 

 ing bees for three years, and says he has 

 had no complaint from any source. 



Mr. Halla's city honey-makers in their winter 

 quarters. 



The accompanying picture illustrates Mr. 

 Halla's lay-out. The hives are covered in 

 winter by an outer house. There are six 

 hives on a bench, and the outside house is 

 built to conform to the shape of the six 

 hives. It is built in sections and screwed 

 together in the fall and unscrewed in the 

 spring. There is an opening in the outer 

 house for each one of the hives inside, and 

 over the opening is provided a slanting 

 cover as shown. Mr. Halla believes that 

 it is better to keep bees than to keep 

 dogs and cats. The bees work on the vast 

 area of flower beds in the residential dis- 

 trict, on the bloom of thousands of acres 

 of gardens, and on the clover-covered spoil 

 banks of the Chicago drainage canal. 



Chicago, HI. J. L. Graff. 



BEES IN BROOKLYN 



Results Such as any Average Beginner Could Rea- 

 sonably Expect 



The bee tinder in mc, set on fire by read- 

 ing Maeterlinck 's ' ' The Life of the Bee, ' ' 

 during the winter of 1916- '7, has grown to 

 be a conflagration. We have always made 

 a specialty of "bees;" but up to May 1, 

 1917, it was "ba-bees. " Since that time we 

 have included "honeybees." 



Early in the year I ordered a beginner's 

 outfit which included a ten-frame colony of 



