BEE EXPERTS HUNT 



aUEENS FOR PRIZES 



Great Gathering of Honey Producers at 

 Jenkintown Apiary. 



STINGS ENOUGH FOR AL,L 



Four hundred men and women bee 

 fanciers from all sections of the East 

 strolled back and forth among hives, 

 toyed with queens and handled drones 

 at the apiary of W. A. Selzer, Jenkin- 

 town, yesterday, at an all-day meet- 

 ing, held under the direction of the 

 Philadelphia, New Jersey and Penn- 

 sylvania Bee-Keepers Associations. 

 New York city and vicinity sent big 

 deleo^ations, and two native Filipinos 

 were present to carry back to the is- 

 lands the information they saw and 

 heard. 



Before the sessions had been con- 

 cluded the bees took the demonstra- 

 tions into their own feet, and there 

 were so many subjects of the bee sting 

 that a formal experiment, which was 

 planned for the visitors' interest, was 

 not necessary. At no time was there 

 a rout of the demonstrators, but there 

 were a good many moustache comb- 

 ings and eye jabs that indicated sting- 

 inp' unpleasantness. 



Several hundred persons, half of 

 them women, wearing veils of mosqui- 

 to bar, moving about the buzzing 

 hives, picking up bees and stroking 

 their backs, made an interesting pic- 



MEN WHO HAI 



Four hundred bee lanciers Irom all s 

 to attend a meeting held under the auspic 

 were given by experts to show that bees c 

 swarm and picked out the queen ol the CO 



ture for the laymen, in s 

 ironclad sign, "Don't di 



hives!" 



But that passed into th 

 when Dr. E. F. Phillips, of 

 States Department of i 

 scooped two handfuls off a 

 heroically held them unti 



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