CHAPTER XII. 



On the " Field " and " Queen." 



Tegetmeier's half-century-long connection with 

 the Field and the house of Horace Cox began 

 when he was living at Muswell Hill, breeding and 

 studying bees, poultry and pigeons, and writing 

 books and articles for the newspaper press. It 

 was in 1858 that he removed to his first house 

 in Muswell Hill, the one depicted in the old 

 lithograph reproduced as an illustration in the 

 chapter on "The Bee-master," and his first ascer- 

 tained contribution to the Field, published in 

 the issue of January 22nd, 1859, was on the 

 subject of bees. In the following month his 

 name appears in the paper as that of the judge 

 for poultry at the Royal Agricultural Society's 

 Show at Preston. After this he became a con- 

 stant contributor to the natural history columns, 

 and in due course was appointed editor of the 

 Poultry and Pigeon Department of the paper. 

 It was, however, as an authority on bees that 

 he established that connection with the well- 

 known sporting and scientific weekly, destined 

 for well-nigh fifty years to have one or more 

 contributions over his name or from his pen 

 every week — articles and reviews which, if now 

 collected, would fill many goodly volumes. 



