1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



663 



Ling is a typical mountaineer, as the many 

 pelts of the mountain cats and antlers of 

 deer he had attest. He escorted me down 

 the mountain canyon after the sun had hid 

 its rays from view. 



Sam Ling is a native of the Flowery King- 

 dom. When but 13 years old he shipped be- 

 fore the mast and landed in England. His 

 eagerness to learn, a peculiarity of his race, 

 led him into many pursuits before he settled 

 down in the Coast Range Mountains of Cali- 

 fornia as a bee-rancher. He was first a 

 photographic printer in the days of the old 

 wet- plate process, and tells with pride of 

 handling fifty frames in the sun at one time. 



by mail correspondence he sends his comb 

 honey to parts as far distant as Chicago. 

 The summer resort of Pacific Grove takes 

 the bulk of his crop, being some twenty miles 

 distant. He is educated in his own language, 

 and intends, when his fortune is made, to re- 

 turn to China, and publish a book in his own 

 language on bees and honey. He has dis- 

 carded his queue and blouse, and tries in all 

 ways to be thoroughly American. 



I left him as dusk approached, feeling 

 proud of the fact that soon, through the 

 medium of Gleanings, the views of his api- 

 ary would soon be flying to all parts of the 

 globe, even to his home in the Orient. 



A CHINESE BEE-KEEPER WHO IS WRITING A 

 BEE-BOOK IN CBINESE, AND WILL SHORT- 

 LY PUBLISH IT IN HIS NATIVE LAND. 



Later in life he got the gold fever, and made 

 his way to California, where he followed our 

 coast from Lassen Co. in the north to Los 

 Angeles in the south, prospecting for the 

 yellow metal. He had no great success, so 

 he went to abalone fishing on the rocks of 

 the coast off Monterey Bay in California. 

 It was here that he found an ideal spot for 

 an apiary, and settled down after having 

 circled the globe. He is a possessor of a 

 home and two apiaries. He has no longer 

 to seek for customers. They seek him^ and 



[I am sure our readers will all be glad to 

 make the acquaintance of Sam Ling, more 

 especially as he will possibly be the man 

 who will introduce modern methods to that 

 great country that is just now beginning to 

 awake from its centuries of little or no 

 progress. There is a grand future before 

 China, and such men as Sam Ling will un- 

 lock the door to a new and brilliant future. 

 The Chinaman has in his make-up that 

 which will make a fine bee-keeper, and 

 there is no question that bee-keeping will 

 leap forward with tremendous bounds in 

 China if once introduced. All it needs is 

 missionaries, schools, and colleges. Now 

 that China is under the direct protection of 

 the United States, England, and Japan, it 

 will not be long before she will recognize 

 and adopt the progressive ideas of those 

 natural protectors. Gleanings desires to 

 extend the right hand of fellowship to our 

 new-found friend, and can only wish him 

 Godspeed in the message he will carry back 

 to his people.— Ed.] 



BEE-KEEPING IN IDAHO. 



G. 



J. Yoder's Apiary; the Hives and Appli- 

 ances he Uses, and Why he Uses Them; 

 the Advantages of the Brush 

 Sheds in Hot Weather. 



BY E. F. ATWATER. 



About eight miles northwest of this place 

 ii the home apiary of G. J. Yoder & Son, 

 containing 200 colonies of bees. About half 

 are under an Arizona- brush shed, while the 

 rest are out in the open sunshine. Mr. Yo- 

 der is a veteran of at least thirty years' ex- 

 perience in Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, and 

 Idaho— in fact, one of the most thorough, 

 careful, and successful bee-masters to be 

 found anywhere. Some time ago he de- 

 scribed in Gleanings a method of fastening 

 full sheets of foundation to three or four 

 sides of the section, and also illustrated his 

 bricks of candied alfalfa honey. This yard, 

 the largest in this neighborhood, is located 

 in a fair alfalfa location where a great many 

 bees are kept; but, nevertheless, no one 

 else in that vicinity gets such large yields 

 per colony. Mr. Yoder has had an extended 

 and^ varied experience with different hives, 



