AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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MR. P. H. EL.WOOD. 



This week we present to our readers 

 the portrait of Philip Henry Elwood, of 

 Starkville, N. Y. For some time he has 

 contributed replies to the queries pub- 



P. H. ELWOOD. 



lished weekly in the Bee Jouenal, and 

 occasionally an article has appeared 

 from his cultured and efficient pen. 



In 1889, at the convention of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion held in Keokuk, Iowa, Mr. Elwood 

 was elected President for the year 1890. 



In the last edition of the " A B C of 



Bee-Culture," Dr. Miller says that Mr. 

 Elwood is a good illustration of the 

 healthf ulness of bee-keeping as a voca- 

 tion. At the age of 23 he was advised 

 by his physicians to abandon a college 

 course and choose some out-door occupa- 

 tion, and now P. H. Elwood, the bee- 

 keeper, is known as a man who tips the 

 scales at 225 pounds. 



Soon after leaving school he was 

 offered a desirable position as teacher of 

 natural sciences in a high school In 

 Michigan, but the offer was refused. In 

 1872, at the age of 25, he commenced 

 bee-keeping as a partner of Capt. Heth- 

 erington. This partnership was profit- 

 ably continued for five years, when he 

 removed a distance of ten miles to Stark- 

 ville, Herkimer County, N. Y., where he 

 has since remained, to carry on the 

 business of producing honey. He was 

 happily married in 1879. 



Mr. E. is a conservative bee-keeper, 

 little inclined to rush after new things 

 simply because they are neW, and is 

 sometimes accused of being at fault in 

 not placing sufficient confidence in the 

 recommendations of others. He cares 

 more to be sure that his plans and im- 

 plements are such as experience proves 

 the best, than to be constantly trying to 

 invent something new. 



He uses the small Quinby hive, and 

 after giving a thorough trial to out-door 

 wintering, he winters his bees exclu- 

 sively in cellars. The larger part of his 

 comb honey is put up in two-pound 

 glassed boxes, and it was his honey that 

 took the first premium at the Paris 

 World's Exposition, exhibited in the 

 same packing-cases in which it was 

 shipped from his apiary. He prefers 

 Italian hybrids, and keeps about 1,300 

 colonies. 



However earnest he may be in other 

 things, he believes that the preparation 

 for the life to come is of infinitely more 

 importance than anything else in this 

 life. 



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