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along pretty well — at least so far as I have 

 observed." 



1 said, "I think they will put in enough 

 drone comb to take off 25 per cent from 

 your profits for this season. I should like to 

 look into some of the supers already put on. 

 and see how they are doing." 



'•AH right," said he, "you may." 



So as we had a trade on hand we soon 

 agreed to go to his bee-i*anch and look them 

 over. We were soon on the way, and held 

 a bee convention of two all of the way there 

 — a drive of a))out five miles. 



Now, it is the way here to keep the bees 

 away from home in some little hollow or 

 canyon, or even on a sidehill, in some place 

 away from where teams pass, and where 

 they won't bother stock, and right in the hot 

 sunshine, generally. Sometimes they are 

 left there the year round; sometimes moved 

 in the spring, April or May, to catch the 

 tiow of orange honey, or possibly moved 

 again the last of May to a sage location, and 

 perhaps again to the alfalfa-tields, though 

 most bee-men claim the alfalfa is not of 

 much use to bees, as the custom here is to 

 cut it before it blossoms. But, to continue 

 my story. 



We soon had the horse put out, and Mr. 

 P. picked for one of his best colonies, opened 

 up, and drew forth a nice new comb, solid 

 drone brood, then another, and, in short, 

 most of his Ijest colonies had a super on 

 nearly half full of drone comb with brood in it. 



"Well, Mr. P., what do you think of your 

 crop of drones".'" 



"I think I'll run my bees a lot different 

 another year. I'll use more foundation and 

 put on queen-excluders, as you said coming 

 on the road." 



Well, we made a trade, but that is another 

 story. I told my brother George about it, 

 and he did not advocate using "starters" 

 in brood-frames any more as he had been 

 doing "to do as they do here." 



He said, "Only the mossbacks do so." I 

 answered him, and got him to ask Mr. 

 Andrews a question the next time he went 

 to Carona. Now, Mr. A. is president of the 

 Los Angeles Society. He had 700 colonies, 

 and produced 40 tons of extracted honey 

 last year. I had explained to George that 

 Mr. A. could not do as well as that if he us- 

 eil only starters in the surplus chambers; so 

 when he put the question to Mr. A., "Do 

 you use full sheets of foundation in your 

 brood-frames?" '■'Always,'' answered Mr. 

 Andrews emphatically. I had met Mr. An- 

 drews in February at his home, and knew 

 how he stood. Well, that settled it. So 

 when we bought more bees we got more 

 foundation. 



Pomona, Cal. 



ence, even though he does not do his own 

 manipulating. He is Charles B. Phillips, Jr., 

 who is 15 months old, and " a chip of the old 

 block." 

 Crafton, Pa., Dec. 28. 



A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK. 



BY C. B. PHILLIPS. 



The young bee-keeper who is here shown 

 is certainly as much interested in the profes- 

 sion as some who are much older in experi- 



CHAS. B. PHILLIPS, JR., AT WORK AMONG 

 HIS BEES. 



[Gleanings offers its coagratulations to 

 Charles B. Phillips, Jr.; ami if he continues 

 to like Ijees we should be glad to make him 

 a present of a bee-smoker when he is old 

 enough to open bee-hives. We can scarcely 

 say that he is too small to handle a smoker, 



