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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



BEE-KEEPING IN A CITY BACK LOT. 



honey show oi' exhibition ought to be a teg- 

 ular annual feature of city and town life, 

 and will be. What many bee-keepers should 

 strive for is to get the name of the "honey- 

 man" in their own locality. It will take 

 more than a newspaper "yarn" to kill the 

 business of such a man. 



CITY BEE-KEEPING. 



How a Busy Doctor Spends his Ijeisnre 

 Hours. 



BY T. E. GURTNER. 



Right in the heart of the city of Newark, 

 N. J., there are four Danzenbaker ten-frame 

 hives from The A. I. Root Co., set up on a 

 strong foundation built of heavy lumber. 

 Between the hives, and underneath the same, 

 the reader will notice galvanized-wire screens 

 for climbing-plants. The plants have grown 

 since this picture was taken, and give a nice 

 shade to the hives, but leaving the entrance 

 free. The little tent next to the hives is the 

 tool-house. The place is remarkably cool, 

 even in the hot season, and is giving the 

 bees the benefit of the morning sun until 

 noon. The garden is full of asters and other 

 honey-ilowers, but there are also some tlowers 

 blooming now, imported from other coun- 

 tries. The hives are all painted, one white 

 with the Swiss flag; two white; three blue; 

 four red, making the colors red, white, and 

 blue. I have also some observation hives 

 with Carniolans near the house, under screen. 



a picture of which I shall send later on. The 

 four Danzenbaker hives are occupied by 

 Italians, some of them with choice queens. 

 The location for the bees seems to be good, 

 because they are doing well now. We have 

 plenty of nursery stock around Newark. 



The yard was in a bad shape when I took 

 the house, about a year ago; but if you could 

 look at it now it would look to you almost 

 like Central Park. This shows what can be 

 done with such a yard. It is more than a 

 pleasure to look at those hives from my of- 

 fice windows on a nice morning, and I am 

 thinking of increasing my apiary to about 50 

 hives next year in the country. This little 

 spot is the place where I have my pleasure 

 in a free hour, and 1 am not blaming my col- 

 league, Dr. C. C. Miller, when he says, "I 

 thank God for such a happy busy life." 



Newark, N. J. 



EUROPEAN TRAVELS. 



Field Meeting- of the Vienna Bee-keepers 



at AVaft-rani : JMigratory Bee-keeping; 



an immense Buckwheat-Field. 



BY RALPH BENTON, B. 8. 



Assisfant in Entoinoloay , University of California. 



It was bright and early on a late August 

 morning that we hurried to the station in 

 Vienna to take the train out a short distance 

 to Wagrani. Here there was to be a field 

 meeting of the Vienna bee-keepers to inspect 



