1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



MISS "WILLIAMS APIARY, AT MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY. 



SO much pleasure and profit, is shown here- 

 with. 



It seems one of her friends asked her to 

 give a series of talks on bees and other nat- 

 ural-history subjects. The result was, she 

 took up the study of bee culture with all her 

 heart and soul, and finally became the pos- 

 sessor of a modest little back-lot apiary, 

 types of which one can see all over the Unit- 

 ed States. She started with two colonies in 

 May, 1905, and in the spring of the follow- 

 ing year she was the happy owner of six col- 

 onies, and at the present time she has some- 

 thing like 35. Her crop last year amounted 

 to 1000 lbs., mostly extracted, and two colo- 

 nies gave a return of over 100 lbs. each. 

 For one only two years in the business this 

 is not a bad showing. Had she not been 

 familiar with bee-literature she could scarce- 

 ly have accomplished this. 



When I asked Miss Williams, toward the 

 close of the convention, if I might have a 

 picture of her and her bee-yard for publica- 

 tion in Gleanings she looked at me some- 

 what curiously as if inquiring why her per- 

 sonality would be of any value in a bee-jour- 

 nal. She was more curious still when I ex- 

 plained that she was a "type." "A 'type' 

 of what? " she asked. "Of a class who are 

 far more numerous than those who are en- 

 gaged in bee-keeping solely for the ' almighty 

 dollar.' " 



There are thousands and thousands of 

 "back lotters" among the professional peo- 

 ple, and nature-lovers who do more to pop- 

 ularize honey among the masses than any 



other class of bee-keepers, and it is to this 

 class that we wish to pay our respects at this 

 time, for they are performing an invaluable 

 service. 



Perhaps some of our lady bee-keepers will 

 recognize Miss Williams as the one who con- 

 tributed an interesting chapter in our book- 

 let, "Bee-keeping for Women." On reading 

 this, one can not help feeling impressed with 

 her enthusiasm and love for this most fasci- 

 nating of all nature-studies, bee culture. 



i am glad to introduce Miss Williams as a 

 modest representative of her class, because I 

 think Gleanings has not made enough of 

 those who are in the business, not for the 

 dollars and cents, but for the mere love and 

 pleasure they find in delving down into the 

 hidden secrets of nature. We wish there 

 were more like her. because the one who is 

 looking only after the glittering dollars very 

 often misses some of the most wonderful 

 things this blessed old world has to offer. 



AN APIARY UNDER ROOF. 



An Open Shed over the Hives for Protec 

 tion. 



BY VTILLIAM F. OTT. 



As the space for my apiary is limited I 

 built the "shed" as seen in the picture, a two- 

 story concern which keeps the north winds 

 and storms from the hives. The colonies 

 seem to get along very well in these quarters; 



