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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15. 



MISS ADA L. PICKARD, 



Richland Center, Wis. 



HERBERT CUTE, 



Greenwood, Wis. 



Some Correspondents 



That will contribute to the Review 

 for 1900 are pictured on this page. 

 For some time there has been com- 

 plaint that the Review devoted too 

 much space to the subject of comb- 

 honey production, to the neglect of 

 extracted honey. This defect is to 

 be remedied in 1900. "Ladies first," 

 is a good motto, and the January Re- 

 view will probably contain an article 

 from Miss Ada L. Pickard, of Rich- 

 land Center, Wisconsin. Ever since 

 she was a little girl she has worked in 

 the apiary with her mother ; and, in 1898, she managed an out-apiary of ico colonies; 

 securing 16,000 pounds of extracted honey as the result of her labor. In my Wiscon- 

 sin trip last summer I found her in an out-apiary fifteen miles from home. In the 

 January Review she will describe her hives, implements, methods, etc., and I will give 

 a frontispiece showing her out-apiary with its background of wooded hills, and a lit- 

 tle brook in the foreground. 



Next on the list is Mr. Herbert Clute, of Greenwood, Wisconsin, who was brought 

 up in the bee business by that old veteran, Frank McNay ; and who, during the five 

 years that he has been in business for himself, has produced about 75,000 pounds of 

 extracted honey, building up a nice apiary, honey-house, and wintering-cellar ; all of 

 which he will describe, and I will illustrate, in an early issue of the Review. 



Harry Lathrop, of Browntown, Wisconsin, is far from being a stranger to the api- 

 cultural world, having been in the business about eighteen years. During this time 

 he has built up and managed, by means of some help, two apiaries, while being sta- 

 tion-agent ior a railroad, and written some most excellent and practical articles for the 

 journals. In the Review he will tell how he produces extracted honey with eight- 

 frame Langstroth hives ; and I will give a picture of his apiary — the neatest that I saw 

 in Wisconsin. 



Few men have had more experience in the production of extracted honey than 

 has N. E. France, of Platteville, Wisconsin. I have been figuring it up, and, as nearly as 

 lean make it out, he has, in the past twenty years, produced at least 300,000 pounds of 

 extracted honey. When I was at his 

 place I was particularly struck by his 

 practical, systematic, business-like 

 methods ; and he has promised to tell 

 the readers of the Review about these 

 methods before the opening of another 

 season ; and I have about half a dozen 

 most excellent photographs with which 

 to illustrate his articles. 



One dollar will get the Review for 

 1900 — and twelve back numbers will be 

 sent free. 



HARRY LATHROP, 



Browntown, Wis. 



N. E. FRANCT., 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. platteville, wis. 



