MAY 1, 1913 



when the sealed brood hatches they will fill 

 the combs with honey, and there will be 

 less honey in the supers, and more swarm- 

 ing, for the bees will always fill the outside 

 combs with honey if they get a chance; and 

 the longer there is brood in them the better. 

 Underwood, Ind. 



OUT-APIARY ON THE SITE OF AN OLD FORT 



BY J. M. BUCHANAN 



I am sending a photogTajjh of one of my 

 outyards, wliich, in its location, is somewhat 

 unique. On the summit of a hill, over- 

 looking the town of Franklin, where, fifty 

 3'ears ago, was fought one of the bloodiest 

 battles of the war, stands an old fort, once 

 guarded by Yankee bullets, but now garri- 

 soned with Dago stingers. 



The apiary occupies the site of this old 

 fort, which at present consists of a level 

 spot partly surrounded by a bank of earth 

 in the form of a horse-shoe, with the open 

 end toward the south, thus providing an 

 excellent windbreak for the hives. Part of 

 this embankment can be seen in the picture. 

 I have a nice honey-house and storeroom 

 here, built so that it can be taken a^^art and 

 moved. The apiary is easily reached with 

 the automobile, which, by the way, we find 

 indisiDensable in out-apiary work. 



This yard contains at present fifty hives, 

 run for extracted honey. It is surrounded 

 by extensive blue-grass pastures, which are 

 white with clover bloom during May and 

 June. There are several groves of locust 

 near by, and this forms one of our chief 

 sources of honey. The locust honey is wa- 

 ter-white, and of fine flavor, and slow to 

 granulate. It blooms about the last of 

 April; and if the weather is fair it yields 

 quite heavily. During this flow last spring 

 a colony on the scales made a net gain of 

 100 pounds in ten days. 



Franklin, Tenn., Dec. 19. 



IN MEMORIAM OF PAUL MICKWITZ 



BY R. MICKWITZ 



[The unfortunate subject of this sketch was at 

 Medina in the winter of 1907-'08, learning what he 

 tould of American methods, and he later spent some 

 time as a student with R. F. Holtermann. He was 

 above the average in intelligence, as shown by his 

 article on page 1257, Oct. 15, 1908, written, if we 

 are not mistaken, when he had had only about a 

 year's study of English. It was his intention to fa- 

 miliarize himself thoroughly with our methods, and 

 tlien take the new ways back to his own country. 



His death marks the end of what would surely 

 liave been a most brilliant career. It is the old, old 

 story of an ambitious man so worried and hindered 

 by a diseased body that the clear vision of life and 



its possibilities was dimmed and distorted. Our 

 sympathy is extended to his family and friends in 

 Finland. — Ed.] 



Dear Mr. Root: — I find it my sad duty 

 to inform you that my brother Paul has 

 voluntarily taken leave of life. He be- 

 longed to that class of men to whom life is 

 especially a burden. High ideals and large 

 plans, in connection with a sensibility which 

 shrank from opposition, yielded to liis in- 

 ner conflicts. His was a retiring nature 

 that prompted him to bear difficulties alone. 

 He had resolved to devote himself to bee- 

 keeping in this country, and to further it 

 with all his powers. His time was short; 

 still he had, thanks to an ardent enthusiasm 

 manifested to all who had deal with liim, 

 many friends and assistants in modern bee- 

 keeping, a knowledge of which he acquired 

 in America. Of the great future for bee- 

 keeping in Finland he was, up to the very 

 last, fully convinced. His bodily power 

 was broken by a series of complicated in- 

 ner troubles, and he leaped from the deck 

 of a ship in the open sea on the night of 

 November 2. 



The late Paul Mickwitz, former student from Fin- 

 land, of American methods in beekeeping. 



