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IN MEMORIAM OF E. C. PORTER. 



The Maker of the Porter Bee-escape; Bee-keeper 

 and Tile-maker. 



BY A FRIEND. 



[As there had been no picture taken of Mr. Porter 

 except when he was a very young man, his friends 

 did not send any. The following sketch of his life 

 was prepared by a neighbor and friend.— Ed.J 



Edmond C. Porter was born June 10, 1857, 

 and died August 6, 1911. He was the only 

 child of Rufus and Mary E. Porter. He was 

 a man of excellent character and Stirling 

 worth. He was honorable, reticent, studi- 

 ous, and industrious, taking the utmost 

 pains to perfect any thing he undertook 

 along any line of work. He possessed a vast 

 fund of knowledge on various topics— very 

 unusual in this day of rush and hustle. 

 Nothing but the best satisfied him; and if 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 



any question came up, he did not rest until 

 he had answered it and was sure he was 

 right. He was an ardent lover of nature, 

 and it was his pride to cultivate choice vari- 

 eties of fruit and plants. 



His father, Rufus Porter, was a raiser of 

 bees, and from his earliest childhood Ed- 

 mond, too, loved and worked with them. 



While Mr. Rufus Porter was the original 

 inventor of the Porter bee-escape, the son im- 

 proved upon it, and it was he who manu- 

 factured them and placed them on the mar- 

 ket. 



Just before his death he had been granted 

 a jjatent on the improvement. He had 

 many bees of his own, and made a specialty 

 of extracted honey. 



He was a fine financier, and, in addition 

 to the bee industry, he had a large farm, 

 and took charge of the tile-factory which 

 had belonged to his father. 



He was unmarried, and had always been 

 at home with his mother, to 

 whom he was devoted, espe- 

 cially since the father's death 

 seven years ago. He has giv- 



Ien her the most tender love 

 and care. She is now well ad- 

 vanced in years, and feels his 

 loss keenly. 

 He was loyal to his friends, 

 just and generous to all, and 

 in his death we have lost a 

 really good man who will be 

 greatly missed in the commu- 

 nity in which he lived. 

 Ray, 111. 



AN 



INGENIOUS WAY OF 

 VENTING ROBBING. 



PRE- 



BY DR. C. C. MILLER, 



Fig. 4.— Rip-saw with table raised. 



There are times when there 

 is very great danger that nu- 

 clei for fertilizing queens will 

 be robbed out. Rudolf Eisner 

 has devised a plan, Bienen- 

 Vater, page 239, whereby he 

 says the nucleus is safe from 

 robbers without having its en- 

 trance contracted. A tube of 

 wire cloth, b, is attached to 

 the entrance, a. This tube is 

 three or four inches long, and 

 an inch or naore in diameter. 

 To this is attached another 

 tube, c, 20 or 25 inches long, 

 made of wood, pasteboard, etc. 

 When the bees take their 

 flight, they may try to get out 

 through the wire cloth, but 

 will soon find their way to the 

 outer end of the tube, cl, which 

 rests on the top of a stake, the 

 top of the stake serving as an 

 alighting-board. 



Well, what's to hinder the 

 robbers from entering at the 

 same place? Just this little 

 trick: The end d is lower than 



