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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



A LABORATORY DEVOTED TO THE tX- 

 TEKSION (,'F THE EDUCATIONAL IN- 

 TEREST IN THE HONEY BEE. 



BY EDWARD F. UIGELOW. 



From various arlides by me find rffor- 

 ences by you to my w< r'c in Gleaning-;, I 

 surmise th it your readers will be inlere^tel 

 in views of the "'Home of the Educcitionai 

 Bee." I there f ire send three phiMoj^raph-:. 



The first picuire shows the apiarian lab- 

 oratory. There ; r* eighteen hives within 

 the building, and fifteen in "The L it!e 

 White City" in fronc. <Not all the ouiduor 

 hives show in the photojjraph. ) 



The natural surruuntl'ngs are exceptional- 

 ly favorable an 1 picturesque, tirowng 

 from the old stump at the left is a clamp of 

 several trees and i-hrubs — walr.ut, ; sh, 

 chestnut, sumac, and others At the right 

 is a picturesque roA^ of wdd-cherry trees, 

 sumacs, and evergreens. An old wall is 

 covered with Virg.nia ci'eeper and a variety 

 of other vines. A ledge in front and a forest 

 in the background make a most ideal loca- 

 tion for an apiary. 



The second is a corner view of the same, 

 showing, at the left, an outdoor photograph- 

 gallery. In another (building the general 

 biological laboratory, in the same yard) is a 

 well -equipped indoor photograph - gallery, 

 and various appliances for original research. 

 In the distant left and rear is a precipitous 

 ledge and forest. 



The third view shows the interior of the 



lab' ratory. In the immediate rear of this 

 are eighteen colonies, most of them under a 

 variety of methods of direct observation and 

 C'Xiieriment. 



So far as I know, this is the only exten- 

 sive apiary for observitiun ai d experiment 

 froiTi ihe educational point of view. I do 

 rot expect to di^ cover any thing new as to 

 metl-ods of producing more honey, nor to 

 Sfll it at a h'gher price. Ntither do I ex- 

 ])('e't to excel Che^h r« or Cowan in explorirg 

 ihe inti rnal regions of the !>■ e. Maeterlinck 

 1 as s( t a liiyher stan 'a' d than I (an hope to 

 a'txin in jlrlosoph zng regarding the won- 

 dei ful life < f the bee. 



But (-no thirg T h( pe ti do; and that is, to 

 fx'.end ihe (durational interest in ihehoney- 

 b e — to advance it as a nature study topic 

 m re than has any one cLe. 



Stam.'"ord, Ct. 



[Our readers will remember that Dr. Bige- 

 low aroused a considerable amount of en- 

 thusiasm among the students tt Wooster 

 this last summer, and that he brought a 

 large number of them to Medina to look 

 over our apiaries and factory buildings. A 

 glance at the photograph of that group, p. 

 914, will be sufficient to show that he is ca- 

 pable of arousing interest in this his 

 favorite study. 



Being editor of the Nature and Science 

 department of the St. Nicholas Magazine, 

 he is, of course, very much interested in na- 

 ture study. Furthermore, he believes that 

 the subject of bees presents an extensive 



CORNER VIEW OF APIARIAN LABORATORY. 



