DECEMBER 1, 1913 



The birthplace of the Langstroth hive at Lyonsville, Massachusetts. 



the apiaries are each year gone over, and 

 any colonies found in a weak condition are 

 placed on top of the strong colonies. No 

 further attention is given to the bees till 

 May, when heavy breeding begins. Stores 

 are then equalized, if necessary; but little 

 fussing- is done with the bees to encourage 

 quick breeding. 



Clipping queens' wings is not practiced. 

 Mr. Crawford inspects bees for swarming 

 tendencies by lifting the hives up from the 

 bottom-boards and looking for cells. By 

 cutting cells and giving adequate surplus 

 room and ventilation, swarming rarely 

 causes any trouble. Colonies that persist in 

 swarming' are divided. 



Foul brood is not tampered with. Hive, 

 comb, honey, beeg, and all are burned in a 

 deep hole, and the ashes covered. MJr. Craw- 

 foi'd has had very little foul brood to con- 

 tend with. 



All of Mr. Crawford's dealings are per- 

 formed with deliberation. He bought an 

 eighty-acre farm at $50 an acre, and the 

 bees paid for it in a few years. About a 

 year ago he sold the farm for |125 an acre. 

 This has helped him to get well established 

 where an occasional honey-crop failure will 

 not seriously affect him. 



Mr. Crawford has been a stockholder and 

 director in the Colorado Honey-producers' 

 Association from the first. He has the sec- 

 ond Rauchfnss combined section-press and 

 foundation-fastener that the Rauchfnss 

 brothers made, and has used the machine 

 every year. Several hundred thousand sec- 



tions have been i:)ut together and started 

 with it. 



I have been told that, during the rush of 

 the summer's bee work, when most beekeep- 

 ers are working early and late, Mr. Craw- 

 ford will lay otf a day every little while and 

 take his whole family to see a show. He 

 told me that this year, when he harvested 

 nearly a carload of comb honey his apiary 

 work would be finished early on Saturday 

 of nearly every week, and he would have 

 the larger part of the day for rest. 



Other beekeepers have made more money 

 some years, but I doubt if any one in the 

 Rocky Mountai-n region has averaged more 

 year after year, and accomplished it with 

 "less stress and worry, than has Harry Craw- 

 ford. 



Boulder, Col. 



THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE LANGSTROTH HIVE 



W. W. Gary and L. L. Langstroth; Apiary and 

 Business of Karl M. Nichols 



BY E. K. ROOT 



When bee culture in the United States 

 was in its early stages in the late 40's, there 

 was a galaxy of brilliant men who were in- 

 terested in bees. First and foremost we 

 should, without question, name L. L. Lang- 

 • stroth; then Moses Quinby, Samuel Wagner, 

 Richard Colvin. Adam Grimm, Roswell C. 

 Otis, and last, but by no means least, W. 

 W. Cary, of Colerain, Mass. Up in the 

 hills of Massachusetts, in Franklin Co,, Mr. 



