iJIOGRAFIlIES OF NOTED BEE-KEEPERS. 



my g-arclou and a small farm (2!) acres); have charge 

 of my fathei-"s estate, run my own shop and steam- 

 cnfrine, sawing- sections, hives, honey -crates, etc., 

 for myself and my neighbors; write for seven 

 dittirent i)ai)ers, and answer a host of cf)rrespo7i- 

 dericc." Mr. D. works for comb honey, and also 

 makes (jtiite a business of rearing ((iieens for sale. 

 Although a prolific writer, his fund of information 

 never seems exhausted, and he is uniformly j)racti- 

 cal and interesting. His writings give evidence of 

 the close and careful thinker, fn personal appear- 

 ance Mr. D. is of commanding presence, being large 

 :ind well formed, of sandj- complexion, ainl in 

 manner he i8 a genial Christian gentleman. 



JAMES HEDDON. 

 James Heddon was born Aug. ;iS, 184.5, in the Gene- 

 see Valley, New York. Early in lite he removed to 

 I lie West; and foi' years Dowagiac, Mich., has l)eeu 

 :i name well known to ])ee keepers, b(>canse it is the 

 home of .Tames Heddon. Endowed by nature with a 

 mind of remarkable vigor, he lacked the advantages 



.1 •-•l^S HEUDON. 



ol' much training in schools, and possibly also its 

 disadvantages. His entrance into the ranks of bee- 

 keepers, about the year l.H»i9, may [irobably be traced 

 to the fad that he married Miss Hastings, the daugh- 

 t<T of a l)ee keeper, serving a year's apprenticeship 

 with the father. Few have shown such faith in Ijee- 

 kceping. lor Mr. H. was the tirst in the State, and 

 one of the tirsi in the country, to make a specialty 

 of that pursuit, and few have shown that their faith 

 was so well founded; for, C'ommencing with nothing, 

 he credits his c;apital, amounting to thousands, en- 

 lirely to the aid of the little busy bee. His apiaries 

 have some .veais contained between .500 and 6()0 colo- 

 nies. In 1879 he added the supply-lnisiness. 



Mf. Ih^ddon is slight and wir.v in figure, below the 

 medium size, of sandy complexion, and iuteusel.v 

 nervous in temperament. This iiorvous tendency 

 leaves Its strong impress on his writings, and more 



especially on his speaking. To that, and to the .state 

 of healtli resulting from it, may pi'rhajjs be attrib- 

 uted a fierceness in controversy, especially in his 

 earlier writings, that would hardly allow one, who 

 had never set'ii him. to give him credit for the affa- 

 bility that he really possesses. As might be expect- 

 ed, both in writing and speaking he is possessed of 

 great vigor. He is a prolific writer, and, when not 

 too much carried away by controversy, eminently 

 l)ractical. In 1885 he published " Success in Bee Cul- 

 ture," a i)ractical work, giving his plans of bee- 

 management, as also a description of the Heddon 

 hive invented by him — a hive having the brood- 

 chambei' horizontally divided in two sections, with 

 the intention of making manipulation bj- hives rath- 

 er than l)y frames. He is alst) editor and publisher 

 of the D()\\agiac Times. 



Among his inventions, aside from the Heddon 

 lii\'e, are the Heddon surplus case and the slat hon- 

 ey-board, .so extensively used. He is tlie father of 

 the " Pollen Theory." Mr. Heddon is bj- no tneans 

 guided by what is merely popular, seeming rather to 

 taki> a delight in the opposite, and for a time cham- 

 pioned box hives and black bees after their general 

 abandonment. He now prefers a carefull.v bred 

 cross of Italians and blacks. 



D. A. JONES. 



Most prominent among the bee-keepers of Can- 

 •ida is Ml'. D. A. Jones, of Beeton, Ontario. If for 

 no other reason, his name deserves a place in the 

 history of bee-keeping as the man who undertook to 

 scour foreign lands and the isles of the seas for new 

 races of bees. Pew would have undertaken such a 

 daring enterprise as that of Mr. Jones, when, in 1879, 

 he set out in person, at great expense, and ami<l 

 dangers and exposures, visited Cyprus and Pales- 

 tine in search of the races of bees which he not only 

 sought but found. As a fitting adjunct to this 

 undertaking he established, on separate islands in 

 the Georgian Bay. ai)iaries where the different races 

 might be kept in purity, or crossed at will. Such 

 things as these, of which the public enjoys the 

 benefit, are usually undertaken by government; 

 but Mr. Jones drew on his ])rivate purse, and esti- 

 mates that he was poorer b.v several thousand 

 dollars for the operation. 



Oct. 9, 183tj. D. A. Jones was born near Toronto, 

 Canada. LTntil of age he worked oti the farm with 

 his father. He then engaged in ditt'erent occupa- 

 tions, bringing up in Illinois about 186), where he 

 worked a few months with a stockman. In the fall 

 of the same year he attended a large exhibition at 

 Chicago, where he was intensely interested in seeing 

 a man exhibiting theLangstroth hive, manipulating 

 the combs covereil with bees, and explaining the 

 advantages of movable combs. Mr. Jones took 

 measurements of the parts of the hive, a fresh in- 

 terest being awakened, fcu' his fathci- hail been a 

 bee-keeper, and among his earliest recollections was 

 that of being carried by his father to the hives to 

 watch the bees. At the age of five he was fairly 

 versed in what was then generally known as to the 

 habits of bees; and befoi-e the age of fifteen he 

 hunted and captured bees, without the aid of his 

 father. 



Mr. Jones married and settled in Beeton, where 

 he engaged in merchandising, afterward becoming 

 so m uch interested in real-estate atta irs and improve- 

 ment of his village that he sold out his store, and 



