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GLEANINGS m BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



but the doubled-up nuclei had to be fed to some ex- 

 tent. The result of the queen-rearing business 

 shows $55U net cash. I have shipped the honey on 

 commission, and have not got returns for it yet. 

 Borodino, N. Y. G. M. Doolittle. 



If the hoiiey-yield was as poor with you as 

 with us, you" liave done exceedingly well. 

 The sm;ill number of 17 colonies, however, 

 spiing count, would rather favor naaking a 

 large yield per colony ; for a bee-keeper 

 with years of experience, and only 17 colo- 

 nies to work with, ought to be able to make 

 a pretty good showing, almost any season. 

 AVht-n it comes to making hunrlreds make a 

 godd showing per colony, the labor of both 

 brain and muscle is very much greater. 



BIOGRAPHY OF KEV. L. L. LANG- 

 STKOTH. 



BY PROF. A. J. COOK. 



TT is a rare event in our social economy that any 

 ,^ man is so great in thought, invention, or meth- 

 yl od of work, that, by his own unaided ability, 

 "*■ he is able to revolutionize the methods of any 

 industry. Hence it is that the world honors, 

 and most justly, such men as Stevenson, Whitney, 

 and Langstroth. It is also rare, fortunately it is be- 

 coming less and less so, that a man of wide culture 

 and superior intellectual endowments cares to in- 

 terest himself in that which is useful or practical. 

 The more honor, then, to such men as Langstroth, 

 who worked with the greater ardor because his 

 work would benefit his brother-man. 



There is still another peculiarity of noble minds- 

 must I say that it is rare?— such a love of truth and 

 honesty that, even though business, property— yes, 

 life itself— is at stake, they will not swerve from 

 the strictest integrity. One has only to know our 

 dear old friend intimately, as 1 have known him, or 

 even to read his book and articles for the press, to 

 see that just such a love of truth, just such trans- 

 parent honesty, inspires all his thought and work. 

 Such truth is a crown of glory that the world can 

 never give. It is for these grand qualities, even 

 more than for his great achievements, that we as 

 bee-ieepers love to do honor to this " father of 

 American apiculture," and that the whole bee-keep- 

 ing world reveres his work and his character. If not 

 the greatest, he is certainly one of the greatest 

 benefactors of the bee-keeping art— a man of whom 

 we all wish to know more— a man whose memory 

 will always be cherished by bee-keepers every- 

 where. 



Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth had his birth in Phil- 

 adelphia, the 25th of December, 1810. Born in the 

 " City of Brotherly Love," how worthily he has 

 acted to maintain the reputation of his natal city! 

 How few men exemplify more of brotherly love in 

 their everyday life! As a child, Lorenzo was pas- 

 sionately fond of insects. Even now he grows elo- 

 quent as he tells of the pleasure he had when a boy 

 in watching ant-hills, and in searching out other 

 insects, and studying their wondrous habits. His 

 parents, though intelligent, well-to-do people, did 

 not encourage this seeming "waste of time," 

 and so, instead of encouraging his thirst for study 

 from the grand book of Nature by a show of inter- 

 est or words of approval, and by supplying books 

 devoted to natural history, they repressed this de- 



sire to know God by the study of his handiwork. It 

 seems strange to us now, how parents can see that 

 any thing but good can come from a study of the 

 pure and true, as Nature writes it on all her pages. 

 At the age of seventeen Mr. Langstroth entered 

 Yale College, from which institution he graduated 

 four years later. Those of us who have admired 

 the classic diction of his great work, "The Honey- 

 Bee," have listened to his reading from Virgil and 

 Columella in Latin; and have heard him eloquently 

 explain his invention and methods of work, need 

 not be told how industriously these college years 

 were spent. Neither are we surprised to know 

 that he was thought competent to teach in the 

 great college from which he had received his educa- 

 tion. He was two years Tutor of Mathematics at 

 Yale, and entirely sustained the expense requisite 

 to a theological course which he took at his alma 

 mater. 



LORENZO I ORRAINE r,ANr,STROTH. 



In May, 1836, he was ordained pastor of the Old 

 South, or Second Congregational Church, at An- 

 dover, Mass. Eloquent, learned, studious, devout, 

 full of that love which " esteeraeth others better 

 than oneself," it goes without saying, that Mr. 

 Langstroth was a successful pastor in the best 

 sense of that word. In the same, year, he married 

 Miss Anna M. Tucker, of New Haven, Ct , by whom 

 he had one son and two daughters. Many of us re- 

 member what a faithful helpmeet he secured. Dur- 

 ing the severe illnesses of her husband she carried 

 on his very arduous and extensive correspondence 

 as only an unusually competent, dutiful, and lov- 

 ing wife could do. The beauty and painstaking 

 accuracy of the business letters written by Mrs. 

 Langstroth showed full well that her husband had 

 secured that best of life's blessings, a good wife. 



