AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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MRS. JENNIE ATCHEEY. 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley, of Floyd, Texas, 

 the subject of this sketch, is of German- 

 English descent, and was born at Deca- 

 tur, Meigs County, Tenn., on July 14, 

 1857, making her now 35 years old. 



Her first bee-keeping began when 12 

 years of age. When 17 years old, she 



MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. 



married Mr. Emerson J. Atchley. In 

 1877, in order to be up with the times, 

 she secured all the bee-literature obtain- 

 able, and at once began queen-rearing 

 as a specialty, and shipped her first 

 queens and bees by the pound in 1879 

 and 1880, and her queen-trade grad- 

 ually increased until 400 nuclei could 

 not keep her supplied with queens to 

 fill orders. 



Her preference has always been for 

 the Langstroth frame, and at present 

 she uses the eight-frame Simplicity hive. 

 Mrs. Atchley, like many others, has had 



her sweet and bitter in apiculture, es- 

 pecially in queen-rearing. 



She has always had a great desire for 

 flowers, chickens, pigs and bees, pre- 

 ferring to do as much of the work as 

 possible herself, and "she finds both 

 pleasure and health in the open air and 

 out-door work, and now does all the 

 labor of queen-rearing and hive-making, 

 and everything that is done in the api- 

 ary, with her three children to help her, 

 viz. : Amanda, aged 17 ; Willie, aged 

 15; and Charlie, 13 years of age. These 

 children have been brought up in the 

 apiary, and scarcely know any other 

 work. 



During the present season, Mrs. 

 Atchfey will ship more than 2,000 

 queens, besides full colonies, several 

 hundred pounds of bees, nuclei, etc. 

 She owes her present enviable position 

 in apiculture, to Mr. A. I. Root, of 

 Medina, Ohio, who has by kind words 

 and encouragement, by private corres- 

 pondence, and through the medium of 

 Gleanings, helped her over many sad 

 trials and difficulties of the past 15 

 years. 



Her family now consists of Mr. Atchley 

 and seven children. Mr. A. has been a 

 bee-keeper for 25 years, but his speci- 

 alty was honey production until lately, 

 when they have all been compelled to 

 assist in the queen-rearing. 



Mrs. Atchley is well-known to the 

 readers of the Bee Journal, through 

 her various articles, and answers to 

 queries from week to week. Many ad- 

 miring friends will be delighted to be 

 permitted to look into her pleasant 

 countenance, which graces this page. It 

 affords us much satisfaction to have this 

 opportunity to present to our readers 

 one among the few prominent apiarian 

 women of America. 



Ernest Root, in a recent issue of 

 Gleanings, stated that in a solar wax 

 extractor the use of double glass causes 

 at least 10 per cent, more heat than 

 single glass. 



