1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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ing, mind yo", showed me very clearly that, 

 if this stack was strong enough to stand a 

 sixty-mile gale (and it has stood several of 

 them) this light breeze would not be suffi- 

 cient to blow it over Because the chimney 

 swayed back and forth in the slight breeze, 

 one view of the apiary is a little dim. As it 

 was, I was compelled to wait for each pic 

 ture until the wind stopped entirely, so great 

 was the swaying of the stack. At some fu- 

 ture time I may give you a snap-shot look- 

 ing down on the other buildings — those 

 where the manufacturing is done. 



RAMBLER'S MONUMENT. 



A View of the Last Resting--])lace of One 

 whom our Readers Learned to Love. 



BY DAVID HALL. 



When I was getting John H. Martin's mon- 

 ument, Mr. E. R. Root requested a photo- 

 graph of it. Perhaps you will think this is a 

 late day for it. Two years ago last summer 



the monument was erected. I waited before 

 having a picture taken, to have the lot 

 graded and finished. 



One face of the monument bears his in- 

 scription and his wife's. The other face has 

 his father's and mother's name. 



My wife, who was a cousin of Mr. Mar- 

 tin, suggested that some honey-bees be carved 

 in the foliage toward the top. 1 don't know 

 that you can distinguish them in the picture, 

 but they show plainly on the granite. John 

 helped lay out this cemetery, and before 

 leaving for California he removed the bod- 

 ies of his wife and parents from another cem- 

 etery to the lot he had purchased, and laid 

 the foundation for a monument. He is there 

 with all his own family, and many of his 

 kindred in near-by graves. 



The monument is of dark Barre granite; 

 whole height 5 ft. ]0 in.; width, 3 ft. 8 inch- 

 es; thickness, 1 ft. 8 in. 



Hartford, Wash. Co., N. Y. 



[Perhaps we should explain for the bene- 

 fit of our newer readers that John H. Martin 



JOHN H. martin's GRAVE, AT HARTFORD, N. Y. 



The older readers will remember Mr. Martin as " Rambler," who wrote for Gleanings so many years. 



