1904 



GLEANINGS IN feEE CULTURE. 



799 



ence were at their best, and when, too, he 

 could have done so much f jr his brethren of 

 the West. 



J. A. GREEN. 



As soon as we had recovered from the 

 shock of his death, for we had come to love 

 him as a brother, we began to think over 

 whom we veould have to continue the depart- 

 ment; and the more we thought it over the 

 more we thought Mr. J. A. Green — Colora- 

 do — might be our man. 



In years gone by he was one of our most 

 valued contributors. He then hailed from 

 Dayton, 111., and was one of the few contrib- 

 utors whose communications we invaria- 

 bly handed in to Ihe printers without read- 

 ing until they appealed in galley form. 

 He was careful, conservative, and conscien- 

 tious in his statements, and withal a skill- 

 ful bee keeper. Well, this man, some j'ears 

 later, after the writer had his trip through 

 the great West, made some inquiries about 

 available locations that might be secured 

 where he would not be trespassing on ter- 

 ritory belonging to seme other bee-keeper. 

 The result of his inquiries was that he 

 made an extended trip, studying the condi- 

 tions of bee-keeping as thev exist in Ari- 

 zona, California, the great Northwest and 

 finally landing in Colorado. Already an 

 expert bee-keeper before he took this trip, 

 his knowledge of the profession, has been 

 greatly broadened; and now that he has 

 finally settled in his new location, he has 

 adapted himself to the new environments to 

 such an extent that he has come to be a 

 part of the great West. 



In addition to his wide experience and ex- 

 tended observation in different parts of the 



United States he is now foul-brood inspec- 

 tor of Mesa County — a position that brings 

 him intimately in contact with a large part 

 of the bee- keepers in his section of the coun- 

 try. Inspecting, as he necessarily has to 

 do, hundreds of colonies, he knows most 

 thoroughly the conditions as they exist in 

 the great Rockies. He is one of the active 

 members of the Colorado State Bee-keepers' 

 Association, and in every way seems to 

 understand thoroughly the conditions as 

 they exist in that arid country. 



Well, to make a long story short we have 

 made arrangements with Mr. Green where- 

 by he is to conduct, temporarily at least, 

 the department so ably edited by his pred- 

 ecessor, Mr. Morehouse. I say "tempora- 

 rily," because Mr. Green is not sure his 

 time will allow him to take up this work 

 permanently. We are glad to introduce 

 again, then, one of our old correspondents, 

 Mr. J. A. Green, as one of our editorial 

 writers. He will begin his work about the 

 first of September. 



C. H. W. WEBER AND HIS TWO ABLE ASSIS- 

 TANTS. 



In our issue for June 15 I promised to 

 present a little later a view of more of Cin- 

 cinnati's "sweet" people; for it will be 

 remembered I then introduced to our read- 

 ers Mr. F. W. Muth and family. 



It is possibly not known that around Cin- 

 cinnati there center a large number of bee- 

 keepers — perhaps a thousand all told. So 

 active and important are the bee-keeping 

 interests that two cf the large supply man- 



C, H. w. WEBER. 



