1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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low beo in sight. There was not a day 

 last winter but these bees were at work, 

 and consumed none of the honey stored 

 previously. 



We often read of the great loss of 

 bees in the cold States, some losing all 

 their bees. If they would stock up 

 with Carniolans, such fatal results 

 would never occur. 



Gentleness. The Italians with me 

 are extremely gentle; while the Carni- 

 olans are also gentle, they are not so 

 quiet and more inclined to fly from the 

 combs and sting. 



Corona, Cal., Sept. 24, 1900. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



BY TUE EDITOR. 



WE have pleasure in presenting 

 in this number a most excellent 

 portrait of Mr. J. B. Hall, of 

 Ontario, one of the Dominion's acknow- 

 leged leaders in things apicultural. 



While Mr. Hall is a very earnest and 

 popular association worker, it is to be 

 regretted that, for some years past, all 

 persuasion and force, in their oft-re- 

 peated applications, have proven in- 

 adequate to the purpose of eliciting 

 from his pen contributions to the bee- 

 keeping press. This is the more to be 

 deplored when we consider the fact 

 that Mr. Hall's pen productions have a 

 style at once interesting and instruc- 

 tive, peculiarly their own. A more 

 methodical and painstaking bee-master 

 than Mr. Hall cannot be found — nor a 

 more successful one. Too many futile 

 efforts have been made to stealthily re- 

 move the "bushel"' in which so much 

 •iighf is confined to leave any hope 

 for the future in that direction; but. 

 were it not for the profound respect 

 which we feel for this esteemed instruc- 

 tor of our youth, we should not hesitate 

 to suggest the trial of a quicker method 

 of removing it. This might, however, 

 prove equally inafTectual, and we shall 

 neither try nor recommend the kicking 

 plan. 



Mr. Hall is a producer of honey, and 

 being such, he says he has nothing but 

 honey to sell. His favorite bee for the 

 production of comb-honey is an Italian- 

 Carniolan cross, of which he has an 

 excellent strain. He is the originator 

 of the thick top-bar and of the wood- 

 zinc excluder ; though too modest to 

 assert his right to the honor. 



In the conduct of his business, Mr. 

 Hall's operations are governed by 'at- 

 tendant conditions and their immediate 

 requirements, from the standpoint of 

 independent reason, and not according 

 to any set of stereotyped rules, as is too 

 frequently the case with bee-keepers. 

 His Is, obviously, a case of "the right 

 man in the right place;"' and there is 

 ample evidence on every side of the 

 wisdom of his choice in adopting api- 

 culture as his profession. 



At the present time a week seldom 

 passes in which we do not have occasion 

 to recall some of the advice and admo- 

 nitions given with his characteristic 

 earnestness and kindly manner, fifteen 

 long years ago, when he labored to 

 eliminate the erroneous ideas which we 

 had previously acquired, and to estab- 

 lish in their stead a clear understand- 

 ing of what then appeared to be a most 

 obscure subject. 



LAYING WORKERS. 



Successful Result of an Experiment in 

 their Treatment. 



BY W. T. STEPHENSON. 



IN response to your call for short 

 articles, I will tell you of an expe- 

 rience I had with laying workers, 

 which may interest, and possibly benefit 

 the readers of The Bee-keepek. 



This is how it came about: I ordered 

 two queens from a Southern breeder. 

 Both were successfully introduced and 

 in due time commenced to lay. But one 

 of the queens was almost worthless and 

 was superseded in a week or so. The 

 bees then started queen-cells while, in 

 the meantime, another queen had been 



