1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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different directions, and I find that 

 hives facing north and west give prac- 

 tically the same results as hives facing 

 south and east. 



Sometimes it would seem that the 

 bees would start out a little earlier in 

 the morning from the hives facing 

 south or southeast, than from the 

 others. But they never seemed to be 

 any stronger in bees or brood, or 

 gather a larger amount of surplus than 

 those facing any other direction. 



YACOB VETTERSTKIN. 



We have in what is known as the 

 Pennsylvania Dutch settlement, an em- 

 bryo bee-keeper, who gives promise of 

 making a name for himself. According 

 to Mrs. Vetterstein, the boy's mother, 

 ■'Shakey has two leddle poxes of pees, 

 und he make honey more as a horse 

 could haul. Shakey," she says, "is a 

 shmart poy und he learns about pees 

 like nottings. Mr. Kohlmeyer, who 

 knows effrydings apout pees, tolt 

 Shakey ef somedimes he dond know 

 nottings apout pees, to come ofer und 

 he vill told id to him." 



Franklin, Pa. 



What fond hopes and pleasant an- 

 ticipations are awakened by the first 

 sweet hum of spring, and the arrival of 

 the first golden pellets upon the alight- 

 ing board. 



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Contrary to his preconceived notion 

 of the requirements of a successful 

 wintering hive, long and varied ex- 

 perience with both a deep and shallow 

 frame, J. E. Hand has now decided in 

 favor of a frame only 4^^ inches deep. 

 His story is related in Gleanings. 

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In the matter of mammoth honey 

 tanks, for which California has always 

 been noted, she is completely outdoing 

 hei'self this year. We learn by Glean- 

 ings that R. Wilkin is storing fourteen 

 tons of honey in a fire-proof, concrete 

 reservoir, awaiting a satisfactory mar- 

 ket. 



Mr. John Newton. 



Written for Tlie American Bee- Keeper, 



BY H. E. HILL. 



P2l£2 

 ^rryHE suDject of this brief sketch. 



Jj^ of whom mention was made in 

 ^' our last issue, as one of Canada's 

 rising young apiarists, was born and 

 reared in the town of Woodstock, On- 

 tario, thirteen miles from Thamesford, 

 his present home. 



Mr. Newton is in his 31st year, and 

 begun his bee-keeping career in 1882 



JOHX NEWTON. 



by engaging with Mr. J. B. Hall as as- 

 sistant in the widely-known "Wood- 

 stock Apiary" — a view of which is also 

 herewith presented — and his success 

 has been no less marked than that of 

 Martin Emigh and Jacob Alpaugh, 

 prominent Canadian bee-keepers of to- 

 day, who graduated from the same 

 honored school. 



Mr. Newton continued during the sea- 

 sons of 1883, '84 and '85 to assist Mr. 

 Hall in his apiary work, and during 

 this protracted term of tuition under 

 "the chieftain," an appellation by which 



