GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Fig. 2. — A closer view of the largest bee-tree in the world. The native cliildien in the foreground give an 



idea of its size. 



cutting- a gash at the base of the leaves. The 

 blossoms of the tree attract the bees, which 

 procure honey from them. 



Fig. 5 is an African jungle where the 

 hum of the bee and other insects is heard 

 by the thousands, and where also is the 

 home of the elephant and leopard besides 

 many reptiles. 



Fig. 6 is one of my latest productions by 

 way of a fancy hive. It is made in three 

 sections, and is double-walled. The inside 

 is a regular ten-frame Danzenbaker with 

 tAvo supers. The foundation on which the 

 hive stands is of stone laid in cement. The 

 stones were gathered from Maine to Cali- 

 fornia, some from all the New England 

 States, and some from foreign lands. One 

 of them a friend brought from the shores of 

 Galilee, wheie Christ spent so much time 

 with his followers. 



In closing this rambling article I want to 

 say that I believe it is not so much what we 

 cat tVp.t gives us a long and vigorous life as 

 / ow we live. I have eaten nearly every 

 kind of food that ever found its way into a 

 human stomach, and food cooked by nearly 

 every race of people. I have lived among 

 cannibals; but while among them I ate no 

 meat — for m.y own special reason. I have 



sailed on English, French, Spanish, Portu- 

 guese, and Dutch steamers, and ate what 

 was set before me, and asked no questions. 

 I have a good constitution, inherited from 

 the old New England stock, many living 

 fourscore years and more. As a cliild I was 

 considered frail, but have wept at the graves 

 of many of my associates and friends whose 

 prosjDeets for a long life were far better 

 than mine. I have always been strictly 

 temperate, using no intoxicants nor tobacco 

 in any form. Unlike Bro. Root and Terry 

 I do not care to live to the century mark. 

 ]n tracing my ancestry back for more than 

 four hundred years I find some of them 

 nearly reached that age. The oldest record- 

 ed was over 97. 



I am not so much interested in what Die 

 next thirty years will accomplish by way of 

 great achievements as I am in the great un- 

 known and the Father's house where are 

 many mansions, and the location of that 

 city which is to be my future habitation. I 

 would rather leave tliis world with an active 

 brain and a mind unimpaired by the feeble- 

 ness of old age than to reach the century 

 mark with mind gone and body weak and 

 tottering, and a burden to those around me. 



North Westport, Mass. 



