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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



on the porch i.s a suggestion how to sell hon- 

 ey, and the Hower in the foreground is a 

 Rocky Mountain bee-plant in full bloom. 



Fig. 2 is a corner of my apiary. The hives 

 are of my own make, ten-frame Dovetailed; 

 but I do not recommend making them at 

 home unless one is a mechanic, and even 

 then there is nothing saved. The smoker I 

 have in my hand i made myself, and the 

 material cost 90 cts., labor $3.00, so I would 

 not advise any one to make his own bee 

 supplies. 



Great Bend, Kansas. 



DR. DZIERZON. 



BY W. K. MORRISON. 



Below we give the latest portrait of Dr. 

 Dzierzon, showing how he appeared at the 

 age of 95 years. For this we are indebted to 

 Bienen-Vater, one of the foremost if not the 

 chief bee journal of Europe, whose editor is 



—From the Bienen- Vater, Austria. 



Alois Alfonsus, of Vienna. The decorations 

 on the breast of the venerable gentleman 

 were conferred by various European royal- 

 ties. The Emperor of Russia conferred on 

 him the order of St. Anne; the Empei'or of 

 Austria - Hungary conferred the order of 



Francis Joseph; the King of Sweden and 

 Norway, the order of Wasa; the Grand Duke 

 of Hesse, the order of Ludwig; and another 

 by the Archduke John. He, in a sense, earn- 

 ed these decorations by allowing students of 

 bee-keeping from all parts of Europe to come 

 and study at his apiary, many of whom wei'e 

 sent there by the governments of their own 

 country and at their expense. 



It is said he led a happy, peaceful, con- 

 tented life, devoted to his bees, living amid 

 his friends and relatives, by whom he was 

 revered. For many years he had given up 

 church work to live with his brother's fami- 

 ly, and with whose youngest son he died, be- 

 ing constantly attended by his nephew's 

 wife, who cared for him as a daughter does 

 for her father, going with him to the bee- 

 keepers' conventions that he might not suf- 

 fer. To the day of his death he owned many 

 colonies of bees scattered through twelve 

 apiaries. 



We gave a general life-history of this re- 

 markable man in our Dec. 1st issue, p. 1508. 



THE CHAMBERS NON-SAVARMING DE- 

 VICE. 



The Chute Unnecessary. 



BY M. R. KCEHNE. 



In reading in Gleanings, pages 582, 583, 

 tlie description of the J. E. Chambers non- 

 swarming device I find that I have been 

 working for years liack on the very same 

 principle, but have come out in a much easi- 

 er and simpler way than Mr. Chambers. That 

 chute arrangement is entirely unnecessary, 

 and I think even a detriment to the colony 

 above the brood-nest, inasmuch as it depletes 

 the brood of too many bees at a time when 

 they are sorely needed to give the proper 

 heat to hatch "the bees successfully. I make 

 my partition-board somewhat different as 

 follows: On each side of the board I put a 

 strip of common wire cloth, top and bot- 

 tom, 3 inch, and in the center a ^ inch board; 

 at the back of it is a 1^-inch hole covered by 

 queen-excluding zinc. This allows the heat 

 from the colony below to come up freely to 

 hatch the brood, and at the same time allows 

 an intercommunication through the 1^-inch 

 zinc, through which they equalize as to num- 

 bers fairly well. The partition-board, of 

 course, has a fly-hole at one end. which is 

 turned in an opposite direction from the 

 front fly-hole. 



I manipulate the bees that way al)out three 

 weeks before I expect hdney to l^e gathered 

 freely; and after the young queen in the up- 

 per hive l)egins to lay I take her out, together 

 with enough bees to stay with her, and then 

 remove the partition-board. By this time 

 the haiwest is on and the bees will not swarm 

 any way. Of coi;rse, one can remove the 

 partition-l)oard without removing the queen, 

 and she will invariably dispatch the old queen 

 below. 



I communicated this idea to Mr. Stachel- 



