1905 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



69 



about his new queen, but we extend to the 

 pair the compliments of the season and our 

 best wishes. 



WILSON AND HIS "QUEEN." 



Horace Greeley used to say, "Go west, 

 young man." A. L Root has often said, 

 "Get married, young man." At all events 

 there is one bee-keeper, Mr. W. H. Wilson, 

 of Derby, Vt., who has recently taken 

 Uncle Amos' advice. In commemoration of 

 the event he sent a couple of photos taken 

 by his "queen," as he calls her. One of the 

 pictures, page 72, is suggestive of "sweet- 

 heart," for you know that all honey-produc- 

 ers have sweethearts, or would have if A. I. 

 R. could have his way. Or the picture may 

 indicate that the happy pair are enjoying 

 their "honeymoon." In either event may 

 their lives be those of honeyed sweetness, 

 without a sting; and may he who has prom- 

 ised to love and protect her never be 

 ashamed to call her "sweetheart," even 

 when the silver hairs and furrows creep 

 over the brow of that queen of his hive. 



Mr. Wilson says that he has bought a 

 good many queens, but this he positively 

 avers is better than any five-bander he ever 

 owned, for she is all pure gold you know. 



Say, I do enjoy looking at those "smiles 

 that won't come off." The only person who 

 would envy them their happiness is the old 

 bachelor who can't see any sense in the 

 advice of the sage from Medina. 



The other picture shows a corner in Mr. 

 Wilson's bee-yard of some 80 colonies. Evi- 

 dently a swarm had just been hived, or per- 

 haps the queen's wing was clipped, and the 

 swarm has returned and will shortly go in 

 to see what's the matter. Mr. Wilson says 

 his wife is not afraid of the bees; indeed, 

 she is very much interested in them. She 

 will take care of them, with his help, nights 

 and mornings, for he works at a near-by 

 granite-quarry. 



LOUIS H. SCROLL AND THE SOUTHWESTERN 

 DEPARTMENT, 



Bee-keeping among the Rockies has taken 

 so well with our Western contingency that 

 we have decided to have an editorial repre- 

 sentative in the great Southwest, taking in 

 the vast commonwealth of Texas— a State 

 that has within its borders some of the best, 

 if not the best, bee-paradises in the United 

 States, and which promises in the near 

 future to be one of the greatest honey-pro- 

 ducing sections in the world. Its honey-pro- 

 ducing territory is almost unlimited, and all 

 it needs is railroads to push out into the 

 unoccupied fields so that bee-keepers and 

 ranchers can get their honey and crops to 

 market. 



In casting about over the field for a suit- 

 able man to edit this department I could 

 think of no one better fitted than Louis H. 

 Scholl, at one time editor of a bee paper 

 himself, a close student of bee culture from 

 boyhood up, and now a salaried instructor 

 and experimenter at College Station, Texas, 

 where apicultural experiments and bee- 



keeping are especially taught. He has con- 

 sented, at least temporarily, to take charge 

 of this department, and the same will appear 

 once a month, alternating with Bee-keeping 

 among the Rockies, by J. A. Green. They 

 will not in the least conflict with each other, 

 as they will occupy fields separate and dis- 

 tinct, although naturally, of course, both 

 may write on the same subject and discuss 

 the same question. 



LOUIS H. SCHOLL. 



By courtesy of the American Bee Journal. 



Mr. Scholl has spent a few days with us, 

 studying some phases of apiculture that 

 have been especially developed in a large 

 bee-supply establishment. He makes his 

 editorial bow and acknowledgments in his 

 department, which appears elsewhere. 



SIDELIGHTS FROM THE ST. LOUIS CONVEN- 

 TION ; CAUCASIAN BEES, THE GEN- 

 TLEST IN THE WORLD. 



CONSIDERABLE was said at this convention 

 for and against this race of bees. It was 

 generally admitted that they were probably 

 the gentlest bees in the world, but there 

 was more or less difference of opinion as to 

 whether they were excessive swarmers and 

 otherwise undesirable. Mr. Benton said 

 that, so far as he had tested them, he had 

 found them to be good honey-gatherers, and 

 so tractable that any thing one desired to do 

 with bees could be done with them without 

 smoke and without a veil at any time, early 

 or late, whether they were getting honey or 

 not. They could be brushed from the combs 

 with the bare hand, or one could even ham- 

 mer on the entrance and brush the bees 

 from the entrance, and do any thing with 

 them, no matter if the propolis snapped, 

 and no matter if the time of day was unde- 

 sirable. If you bothered them in the fall 



