BEE-KEEPERS AND BEE-KEEPING 20? 



respondence published, wherein John Smith of 

 Maine explains his views on the bee business to 

 Timothy Jones of Oregon, and incidentally sends 

 his kindest regards to the family. 



I never take into my hands that delightful book, 

 "A B C of Bee Culture," without turning to the 

 biographies of noted bee-keepers, and looking again 

 at the faces there depicted, noting the noble forehead 

 of Huber; the keen, scholarly face of Dzierzon; the 

 judicial countenance of Friend Quinby and the 

 beautiful expression of the venerable Langstroth. 

 And thus on, page by page, and getting, by the way, 

 a friendly greeting from the kindly eyes of Professor 

 Cook, that most excellent of good teachers; and 

 finally deriving sincere satisfaction from a long look 

 at the keen, humorous face of Mr. A. I. Root himself. 

 These leaders in apiculture are men with whom one 

 is proud to be associated. And the fact that there 

 are, in the United States, 300,000 persons engaged in 

 bee-keeping, makes one hopeful that our republican 

 institutions are to be guarded by intelligent citizen- 

 ship. 



It is interesting to note that knowledge of bees has 

 been given to the world by men who have attained 

 the high peaks of scientific fame. Such knowledge 

 began with Aristotle and Pliny in ancient times, and 

 received no additions during the uncertain Dark 

 Ages. It began anew with Swammerdam, in the 

 seventeenth century, was augmented by Linnaeus, 

 De Geer, Reaumur, Bonnet, Lyonnet, Fabricius, 

 Latreille, Lamarck, and finally reached a climax in 



