1906 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 29 



A YOUNG QUEEN-BREEDER. HONEY EXHIBITS AT FAIRS. 



BY F. A. LOCKHART. 



I am mailing you a picture of the young- 

 est queen-breeder in the world so far as I 

 know. This very young queen- breeder, 

 Lester C. Lockhart, was born June 23, 1901; 

 and ever since he began to walk he has been 

 among the bees with me, and seemed to take 

 great interest in them. This summer, on 

 his birthday, I gave him seven small hives 

 of Carniolan bees, and told him he could 

 have all the money for the queens he would 

 catch and cage from these hives (by the way, 

 he has quite a little bank account of his own) . 

 Of course, I was careful to show him how 



BY WM. E. PRISK. 



Inclosed is a photograph of my exhibit 

 at the Wisconsin State Fair. They say it 

 was very fine, and I received many first pre- 

 miums. The four corners are all glass filled 

 with 4X5 sections of honey. In the center 

 of the pillars, on a table, are 7 dozen bottles 

 of pure white- clover extracted honey. The 

 arch is painted white, and has four kinds of 

 bottled honey and four different kinds of 

 packages. Right back of the pillars are two 

 tables which you can not see. One table 

 has 11 dozen bottles with twelve kinds of 

 honey. The other table has three different 



THE YOUNGEST QUEEN-BREEDER IN THE WORLD AND HIS BEES. 



to open a hive, take out a comb, look for a 

 queen, and how to catch her and the worker 

 bees and put them in the cage, etc. ; and be- 

 fore the season closed he became quite an 

 expert considering his age. In the picture 

 he is telling the artist how to catch and cage 

 a queen. He gets stimg once in a while, 

 but doesn't seem to mind it much. The 

 seven small hives of bees were made from 

 one strong colony of the gentlest Carniolans 

 I ever saw. No smoker and quite often no 

 veil are used when opening hives. I trust 

 this very young queen-breeder will soon tell 

 the readers of Gleanings, in his own child- 

 ish way, what he knows about his little pets. 

 Lake George, N. Y. 



kinds of honey in round pyramids. Next to 

 the tables are three square glass show-cases 

 on top of each other. The bottom show-case 

 has four perfectly filled and capped extract- 

 ing-frames, large frames, and also four shal- 

 low frames. The rest of the case has sec- 

 tions weighing 2 lbs. up to J lb. The next 

 show-case has all the different kinds of sec- 

 tions. The top case is full of 3|X5XlJ sec- 

 tions. 



Next comes the shipping-cases, 80 in num- 

 ber, 24-lb. cases, painted in blue and natu- 

 ral finish, also grained in oak and mahogany, 

 equal number of each. On top of the cases 

 is a show-case filled with different kinds of 

 comb honey. Next came the honey-cans, 



