SErTEMBER. 1921 



C! I. !•: A N 1 X (I S 1 X I! K K ( T L T U R K 



old hills, niiotlicr yming man, W. W. Cavy, 

 wlio ha 1 bees aiul also, happily, a work- 

 shop. Ill this shop, then, models were 

 made of the new hive that Avas dreaming 

 itself into Langstroth 's brain. Till at last 

 it was perfected. His book was published 

 and his hive }>erfeeted when he was -J."! 

 years old; and he had done a great thing 

 for the beekeepers of the world. Keally a 

 greater thing, probably, than most of tliem 

 realize f>r api>reeiate. (Jan they not oi>en 

 their hives now and remove any comb 

 from any part Avithout cutting or injuring 

 any other comb? With combs built in 

 frames ingeniously siipi)orted, with all in- 

 side spaces figured to a nicety, Lang- 

 stroth 's hive has made possible tlu' gri'at 

 strides in commercial beekeei»ing. 



Quinby earned his first money when he 

 was IS by working in a sawmill, and with 

 his first money he bought his first bees. 

 From the sawmill he went on into cabinet 

 work, making durable dignified furniture, 

 and from his first colony of bees he went 

 on thru 25 years of study and application, 

 successful ill spit(> of things, or the lack of 

 them, until at 4.'! he jiublished his book. 

 During all those years his vision had been 

 that of making beekeeping a worth-while 

 industry, something men could understand 

 and make profitable and live liy. How 

 steadily he overcame difficulties and took 

 new steps! Instead of sulphuring his bees 

 to take their honey, he bored holes in the 

 toi)s of the hives and set boxes o\-er them. 

 And the bees filled them. Behold, a super. 

 Foul brood came his way. With black 

 bees in box hives. There were no govern- 

 ment bulletins, cither. Yet he met it, 

 studied it- and evolved iirinciples of treat- 

 ment and control that still hol<l. 



After jiublishing his book, he made bee- 

 keeping his sole means of sui)port. Still 

 with black bees in box hives — more than 

 half a century ago. But soon he heard of 

 Langstroth and his woiulertlul new hive. 

 Thoroly he studied it, saw its big under- 

 lying principle and adopted it, or rather 

 adapted it to his own ideas. He preferred 

 and used a deeper frame. He was the 

 lirst big successful honey producer, taking 

 "ff tons of honey year after year. Few 

 people realize that before 1S7.5, the year 

 of his death, any man had ever produced 

 so much honey. Many people even now 

 gasp at the mention of one ton of honey. 

 ''Why, I didn't know there was that much 

 honey in the world,"' they say. Yet Moses 

 (Quinby shij)])eil as high as 1;") tuns a year 

 to New York. 



He was an intensely practical man, with 

 a big vision — a combination that always 

 makes for success. And he was generous 

 of his wealth of experience and learning, 

 always teaching, telling, explaining, and 

 imparting his own enthusiasm. Happy in- 

 deed those who kneM^ him in his own home- 

 loving atmosphere of bees and vineyard - 

 terraced hillsiiles and lluteplaying and 



quiet luqijiy life. Both Langstroth and 

 Quinl)y were men of such a type that 

 American beekeepers may well be proud of 

 them as men. Langstroth was a preacher 

 and Quinby was a Quaker — and the father 

 of a preacher. 



After their books were issued, in iSo.!, 

 the whole beekeeping world, thrilled by the 

 jiossibilities of the Langstroth hive, maiie 

 one advance after another. Foundation, ex- 

 tractor, Italian bees — one by one these 

 came, too. Must not these two great b"('- 

 keei>ers have felt, in their later years like 

 sturdy j)ioneers who finally see modeiii in- 

 dustry and couvi'iiieuce make jx'rfect the 

 land where they, unaided, li;id hewn down 

 forests ami dug i\vv\) wells ^ 



Doolittle and Miller. 



Other lo\'ed and successful beekeeper- 

 teachers followed- Two great recent con- 

 temporaries were G. M. Doolittle and Dr. 

 C. C. Miller- Doolittle was the great au- 

 thority on queen-rearing and bee-behavior, 

 always an accurate observer whose state- 

 ments were thoroly reliable Dr- Miller was 

 a great comb-honey specialist. It still seems 

 strange, even after the passing of a year, 

 to say »"((.s' of Dr. Miller- Of all who have 

 kept bees, he was somehow most jiarticu- 

 larly beloved. Most skillful and successful 

 himself, he solved liiany apiarian problems 

 for others and gave his methods and opin- 

 ions freely — and most modestly — thru the 

 bee journals. He gave of himself, too, so 

 all who read caught glimiises of his rare, 

 magnetic lovable personality- Like Quinby 

 before them, both Doolittle and Dr. Miller 

 made their own bees most ])rofitable. 

 Leaders of Today. 



A. I. Root is so intimately known to read- 

 ers of Gleanings that to mention him is like 

 mentioning a friend- His vision of the com- 

 mercial possibilities of standardized hi\'es 

 built the great A- I. Root (Jompany, hea<l- 

 quarters for everything in beedom, bees 

 and queens, hives, im])lements and founda- 

 tion, books, honey itself — and Gleanings it- 

 self, with E. R.' Root as editor. He has 

 identified the name of Root with all things 

 apicultural. So, too, the name of Dadant, 

 even unto the third generation, means bees, 

 and brings to the minds of beekeepers of 

 today the thought of big hives and founda- 

 tion and the American Bee Journal — and 

 C- P. Dadant, its editor. 



Nor can this list, incomplete tho it nec- 

 essarily is, reach any logical conclusion 

 whatever without reference to Geo. S. De- 

 inuth. Mr. Demuth is another connecting 

 link between the realm of strictly scientific 

 investigation and profitable honey ])roduc- 

 tion. Associated for years with Dr- Philli))s 

 in the Bureau of Entomology, he has assist- 

 ed in countless technical experiments. And 

 he has also made a real financial success of 

 his own bees. He is an authority on the 

 production of comb honey. And, happily 

 for its readers, he is one of the editors of 

 (ileanings. 



