MAY 1, 1914 



347 



The fact that box hives with black bees 

 can be bought in many places in the South 

 for one to two dollars a gaxm, makes this 

 method particularly attractive and simple, 

 where one has a preliminaiy source of 

 honey coming in so as to force the bees 

 above. 



The Wilder method of transfen-ing ap- 

 peal's to ge a good deal like the one describ- 

 ed by Mr. E. D. Townsend some years ago 

 in Gleanings. 



CHARLEY REPP, THE APPLE-GROWER^ AS A 

 TEMPERANCE MAN; BEES AS POLLINATORS. 



In our issue for April 1, page 243, I 

 spoke of my interview with the genial 

 Charley Repp, of the famous Repp Broth- 

 ers, the apple-growers of New Jersey ; and 

 in our issue for Aug. 15, 1913, I gave quite 

 a complete description of the fruit-growing 

 operations of these three brothers. It will 

 be remembered that Albert Repp is the 

 grower of the apples and other fruit. 

 Charles Repp is the one who oj^erates the 

 10,000-barrel storage-plant and ice-making 

 plant ; and Joseph Repp is the merchant in 

 Philadelphia who sells their product when 



Pig. 3. 



-Charlie Repp, of the Repp Brothers, the famous apple-grower; 

 sej'. " Now fire away with your questions." 



the market is ready. The Repp Brother? 

 liave given some very strong testimony 

 showing that they must have bees in their 

 orchards ; and they have some orchards, for 

 they have 450 acres in Gloucester Co., N. J., 

 that are devoted to the raising of fruit. 

 Some of the strongest testimony that has 

 ever been published showing the value of 

 bees as jTollinators has come from Albert 

 Repp, page 562, Aug. 15, 1913; also the 

 Country Gentleman for May 24, 1913. 



It seems that the Repp Brothers have 

 extended their field of operations in that 

 tliey now have a cucumber farm at Delray, 

 on the southeast coast of Florida, and a 

 great success it is. When the boys bought 

 land down in that part of the country they 

 wei-e told that it would not be possible to 

 grow cucumbers there, on account of the 

 insect pests; but Albert Repi? remarked, 

 " Why not kill them off with insecticides in 

 the form of sprays'? " and they did. 



On the Repp Brothere' Florida faiTo 

 there are acres of cucumbers that are being 

 grown successfully, and the probabilities 

 now are that, as they have blazed the way 

 in showing what can be done, winter cucum- 

 bers will be 

 grown in 

 Florida at a 

 price consid- 

 erably below 

 w h a t the 

 n r t li e r n 

 green house 

 growers can 

 produce them 

 The Repp 

 Brothers are 

 already doing 

 it. T merely 

 mention t h e 

 incident here 

 to show that 

 the boys, like 

 their father 

 before them, 

 are in the 

 habit of do- 

 ing what oth- 

 er people said 

 " couldn't be 

 done." That's 

 what makes 

 genius; that's 

 w h a t makes 

 success. 



Mr. Selser 

 Av r t e me 

 while I was 

 i n Braden- 

 town, saying 



of New .Ter- 



