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Gleamngs in Bee Culture 



F. B. Cavanagh"s Jackson automobile with trailer attached for carrying bees and supplies to and 



from out-apiaries. 



fields, and also to guide young queens arriv- 

 ing home on their niating-trip. 



Baby and three-frame nuclei are scattered 

 about promiscuously in the season, as queen- 

 rearing is an important branch of the busi- 

 ness. The sale of swarms is, perhaps, the 

 most extensive in the country, and a large 

 trade is done in honey-selling. Luton is 

 very favorably placed for such a business, 

 as it is centrally situated, and in close touch 

 with several of the leading railways leading 

 to all parts of the compass. The manage- 

 ment of the apiary is mainly in the capable 

 hands of Mr. Stewart. It is really a school 

 of apiculture where a goodly number of 

 you*^hs of both sexes are grounded in all the 

 essentials of bee-keeping; and every year 

 student-helpers pass from its portals to all 

 parts of the world, well fitted to manage any 

 apiary. 



The apiary was greatly admired by the 

 delegates from various countries who attend- 

 ed the recent Franco-British conference of 

 bee-keepers. The late Mr. Broughton Carr, 

 after whom it has been named the W. B. C. 

 apiary, considered it a model of what a col- 

 lection of hives should be, and it is illustrat- 

 ed in the latest edition of the "British Bee- 

 guide " as a typical and specimen English 

 apiary. Any one visiting it can not but ad- 

 mire not only the artistic arrangement as a 

 whole, but the perfect specimens of hives, 

 the powerful colonies found everywhere, the 

 neatness and system of every individual 

 feature. The honey-house, storeroom, work- 

 shop, and study are each perfect of its kind, 

 and models of what such places should be in 



one's ideal of these adjuncts of every apiary. 

 The honey-house is large and commodious, 

 and fitted up with all requisites for carrying 

 on an extensive sale of this ])opular com- 

 modity. In a corner are specimens of lion- 

 ey from almost all parts of the world, and 

 sam])les of all grades of the home-produced 

 article are in evidence. The workshop has 

 a full equij)ment of tools of all kinds requir- 

 ed in hive-making or repairing. Perhaps 

 the store-room is in a way the most com- 

 mendable feature. Every thing has a place, 

 and every thing is in its right place, so that, 

 in an emergency, tools and implements are 

 always to be found when they are required 

 — a point too often neglected in many apia- 

 ries. The photographic room proved of great 

 interest, as some excellent specimens of the 

 art are stored on shelves, laid by in cup- 

 boards, or exhibited on the walls. Here, 

 too, is a powerful microscoi^e, for the owner 

 has been a diligent student of ai)iculture in 

 more branches than that of honey-produc- 

 ing, and has studied nut only Ajiis )nellifica, 

 but also many other hymenoptera. A capa- 

 cious fumigating-chamber forms i)art of the 

 equipment, and combs are placed therein 

 periodically to insure their being kept sweet 

 and clean. 



Mr. William Herrod has been for over a 

 dozen years a prominent English bee-keep- 

 er, and recently he has pushed his way by 

 sheer merit to a place in the front rank. He 

 is well-known on this side as the Secretary 

 of the British Bee-keepers' Association, and 

 under his able guidance this society bids 

 fair to add to its influence and prestige. He 



