NOVEMBER 15, 1916 1079 



A BOY BEEKEEPER WHO HAS ALREADY MADE A SUCCESS 



BY HUBER ROOT 



It gives one a thrill to meet his name- 

 sake. I am not so sure that the great nat- 

 uralist Francois Huber would have ex- 

 perienced any great thrill if he could have 

 known of me; but I am speaking on gen- 

 eral principles. Years ago it gave nie a 

 thrill to learn that a baby boy away off in 

 Ontario had been named after me. It gave 

 me another thrill when I learned not so 

 very long ago that this boy had become a 

 beekeeper. Now I am experiencing a third 

 thrill, which I admit is mixed somewhat 

 with envy, to know that this boy, now a 

 man grown, has become a very successful 

 beekeeper, and it has been a very great 

 pleasure to meet liim and to know him. 



Five years ago Huber Burke began his 

 beekeeping career with two colonies of bees. 

 Without having bought any bees since that 

 time he had sixty colonies this year, spring 

 count, from which he secured an average 

 of 230 pounds of extracted honey per 

 colony, his best colony producing over 400 

 pounds ; 10,500 pounds was fine white-clover 

 honey, and the rest, 3300 pounds, was buck- 

 wheat. A year ■ or so ago with twenty 

 colonies, spring count, he increased to forty 

 colonies and secured almost 100 i3ounds 

 per colony. 



I feel like congratulating this young- 

 man, not because he is named after me or 

 after anybody else, but because he has 

 made good in his chosen profession. Has 

 any one in five years' time been able to 

 make a better record? 



Huber Burke, a successful and rising young 

 beekeeper of Ontario. 



AN EXTENSIVE BEEKEEPER AND POULTRYMAN 



BY R. A. MORRISON 



The picture shows my poultry - jilant. 

 This pen was run as an experiment for 

 close confinement, made up of 60 single- 

 comb White Leghorn pullets hatched May 

 21, 1911. They were shut up in winter 

 quarters on the following 15th of November 

 in a room 14x14 feet square. 



They were never let out of doors iioi- 

 given any change from that time until they 

 had to be removed in November, 1912, to 

 make room for sixty 1912 pullets. 



Their ee:g-laying record began Jan. 1, 

 1912. That day's record was 33 eggs. For 

 the following- ten months their record was: 



January, 1093; February, 1123; March 

 1302 ; April, 1346 ; May, 1307 ; June, 1141 

 Jul}', 827; August, 956; September, 662 

 October, 116. For the ten months, 9873 — 

 an average per lien of 1641/2 eg^gs, or 822^/4 

 dozen. The average price per dozen for the 

 ten months w^as '-iOVo cents, a total of 

 $251.06. Tlie cost of food per hen was 

 $1.48, or $88.80 for the 60 hens, which 

 left a net profit of $162.20; for each hen, 



$2,701/2- 



This plioto was taken by flashliglit on the 

 evening of Aug. 31, after they liad gone to 

 i-oost. Notice that some of them are asleep. 



