NOVEMBER 1, 1912 



time i^utting up a quantity just suiificient 

 for immediate use, as most people buy in 

 small quantities. 

 Atlantic, Iowa. 



[There are great possibilities for one 

 who has the ability and the time, to develop 

 the home market. Sometimes a locality is 

 found where not one family in a hundred 

 buys honey, and there is no demand for 

 it. Advertising then works wonders. — Ed.] 



180 POUNDS PER COLONY IN AUSTRIA 



BY F. RICHTER 



I take the liberty of sending you a photo- 

 graph of a part of our apiary. We use 

 only Langstroth hives of American manu- 

 facture, and are highly pleased with them. 

 There are about 30 colonies in all. Nos. 

 12, 13, 15, are hives still in winter cases. 

 We had last year a very good honey har- 

 vest — about 180 pounds per colony. 



Vienna, Aus., Aug. 25. 



TEACHING APICULTURE TO BOYS 



BY DR. E. F. BIGELOW 



I am sending you a i3hotograi)li showing 

 the good use I am making of the bees in 

 our experimental apiary. I am impressing 

 upon the boys the lesson that l^ees are not 



quite so bad, at any rate at times, as most 

 people regard them. These boys are the 

 sons of wealthy parents of Greenwich who 

 have a special tutor to care for them and 

 take them around, showing them the inter- 

 ests of nature. They requested that I give 

 them a lesson on bees, and this is their 

 first experience. We opened the hive witli- 

 out the aid of veil or gloves, and the boy 

 just in the rear of the hive passed out the 

 frames to his mates. Though they i^layed 

 around with these bees for an hour there 

 were only tAvo stings in the entire company. 

 One little fellow was quite enraptured with 

 the delights of the little insects, which he 

 viewed for the first time as he sat on the 

 ground gazing into the entrance of the hive. 

 1 think this a remarkable object lesson that 

 bees are not so bad as they have been re- 

 garded. 



Arcadia, Sound Beach, Ct. 



A CONVENIENT HONEY-HOUSE AND WORK- 

 SHOP 



BY JOHN T. SMITH 



The engraving shows my bee-yard and 

 work-shop. In nearly the entire yard I 

 use the Hoffman frame. Part of the yard 

 is run for comb honey, and the rest, some 

 24 colonies, for extracted honey. Last fall 

 there were 110 colonies in the yard. I 

 lost 50 in the winter, so commenced the 

 season with onlv fiO. T liave increased to 



A group of boys who have found out that bees can be "tamed," 



