GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Colonies in tenement hives. 



confidence, have for me been a fruit t'al 

 source of instruction. There is, however, 

 yet another source of information, and that 

 is to visit some of the beekeei^ers in their 

 homes after the convention is over. Such 

 kindnesses to me have been frequent, and 

 in no small degree have they been extended 

 to me in Xew York State. 



In December last I went to New York 

 under the New York State Board of Agri- 

 culture, and upon comi^leting my engage- 

 ment I accepted several invitations from 

 beekeepers to visit them at their homes and 



Hives set too close together for easy inspection 



ai.>iaries. My tlrst visit was with D. R. 

 Hardy, Burr's Mills, N. Y. It was a stormy 

 night when Geo. B. Howe, pi'esident of the 

 New York State Association, and I landed 

 at Watertown ; but we were met by Mr. 

 Hardy and taken to his home in the coun- 

 try, and made welcome. After supper a 

 brief visit was paid to the bee-cellar and 

 honey-house. Mr. Hardy is an unusually 

 painstaking beekeeper. He is not afraid to 

 follow original ideas, and he has evidently 

 met with a more than average amount of 

 success. He has been developing a strain 

 of bees about one 

 quarter Carniolan and 

 three quarters Italian. 

 Turning to me, he said, 

 "I can remember your 

 suggestion years ago 

 at a State convention, 

 that such a bee was, 

 in your estimation, a 

 superior o n e." Mr. 

 Hardy has been acting 

 upon the correctness 

 of this idea, and lie 

 appears to be well sat- 

 isfied with the result. 

 For extracting, Mr. 

 Hardy uses a power 

 extractor and a three- 

 horse-power gasoline- 

 engine. Turning to tlie 

 capping-can he said. 

 "I want to show you 



