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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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in the equivalent of two months ? or that two 

 of you s]iciU ten months, leavinjj; out the oth- 

 er two months which you apparently cxee]>t ? 

 or what do you mean ? It wt>ul(l he very in- 

 teresting; indeed to know a])proximately just 

 how many days it took to harvest that croji ; 

 and if two of you did it practically in (iO days, 

 it was a hi"; feat indeed. It is possible that 

 many bee-kee])ers are s])endin>; too much 

 time in gettinj^ a jjiven crop of honey; and if 

 you have broken tlie record, let us hold it up 

 iiigh until some one else breaks it. — Ed.] 



(.. .M. DOOLITTLE IN HIS APIARY. 

 Testinju Honey from Deep-ceU Foundation. 



I!V KRNKST K. ROOT. 



After the Buffalo convention I told ]\Ir. 

 Doolittle that I should probably call upon him 

 in a week or so. But circumstances made it 



this deserved title ; and before I j^o further I 

 am jj:oin<:; to ,t,nve you rit^ht here what Mr. H. 

 has to say about our friend : 



Dooliule was certainly what C',i,kanin'(;.s called him, 

 the ■• uncrowned king of the UiifTalo convention." I 

 think no one will be < fTended if I .say that I think that 

 he was the 1 est spt aker Iheie was there. No one who 

 h issini])ly lead his staid, sober, matter-of-fact articles 

 in the bee-jouinals would dream of the manner in 

 which he can llavoi his speeche.s with anecdote and 

 i. lustration. For instance, he was telling how st me 

 okl man was woikiii;..; himself all but to death that hi.s 

 children might not be compelled to begin at the foot 

 of the ladder as hf liad done. Mr. Dooliule asked him 

 if he had not enjoyed himself when he began honse- 

 ketping in a humble way, and he and hi.s ycnuig wife 

 had worked cheerfully' and happily as "month by 

 month they added to the c<ni forts of their home. The 

 old man was .silent a minute and then admi'ted, " They 

 were the happiest days of my life." " \V( uld you rob 

 your children of this happiness?" asked Mr Doolittle. 

 I don't suppose Mr. Doolittle knew it. Imt it brought 

 tears to my eyes, so clearly did it bring back those 

 happy days when wife and I began housekeeping in 

 a humble home built by niv own hands, and "worked 

 cheerfully and happily as mouth by month we added 

 to the comforts of our home." 



Mr. Salisbury and I oiled up our wheels the 



ni,<;ht before, auvl llie next mo:-ninr,'- donned 



DOOI.lTrLIi .\XD S.M.ISUURV SAMl'LING COMI! JKJNIiV IRii.M DU.WV 



)i:XD.ATION. 



necessary for me to change my plans ; and 

 the consecjuence was, it was not till the ")th or 

 6th of September that I found it possible to 

 make my proposed visit. Having made a tour 

 in and around Seneca Co. and Seneca Lake, 

 Totnpkins Co. and Cayuga Lake, I made my 

 way northward to vSyracuse, intending at that 

 point to ask Mr. I'rank A. Salisbury, our 

 branch manager, to accompany me out to see 

 " the uncrowned king of the Buffalo conven- 

 tion." And this reminds me that the editor 

 of the Reviezv, Mr. Hutchinson, fully indorses 



our knickerbockers, golfs, and sweaters, pre- 

 paratory to a twenty-iive-mile ride to Borodi- 

 no. The morning was all that could be asked 

 for ; and then began the heavy grinds up the 

 hills, followed by almost mile-a-minute coasts 

 down the other sides of the grades. Frank 

 knew better than I how to take advantage of 

 the hills about Syracuse, and he certainly 

 knew how to let his wheel " go gallagher " 

 down these long coasts. I did not dare to let 

 mine out at such break -neck speeds ; and the 

 consequence was, when we came to a level 



