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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 1 



SOME YORK-STATE BEE-KEEPERS. 



Hubert Hetlierington, of Cherry Valley, N. 

 Y. ; a Worthy Son of a Worthy Sire. 



BY D. EVERETT LYON, 



Special Field Correspondent o) Gleanings. 



[Perhaps the reader will better understand the hive 

 here illustrated if we say that it has a bottom-board 

 having a square hole through the center of it. The 

 bees, in going into the hive, pass under the bottom, 

 up an incline, into the center of the brood-chamber. 

 This latter consists of a series of closed-end frames, 

 Quinby depth, that hook on to the bottom and stand 

 up against each other in exact alignment, with a wood 

 panel on each outside frame. The whole are secured 

 in place by means of a looped string. It is surprising 

 how quickly this can be put on and removed. 



Over this brood-nest is a honey-board; and then sur- 

 rounding the whole is a cap deep enough to reach 



this inner wall is necessarily exposed to the elements. 

 The writer saw this whole arrangement in operation 

 at Mr. Elwood's seventeen years ago next summer, 

 and was surprised to observe how readily it could be 

 operated In the finding of queens, and the contract- 

 ing of the brood-nest to any size, for example, the 

 general arrangement is unique. 



The old original closed-end Quinby hive was rather 

 difficult to handle; but Capt. Hetherington so im- 

 proved it that no loose hanging frame of the Lang- 

 stroth type could be handled any more readily or eas- 

 ily, with the further advantage that the closed-end 

 frames make a warmer brood-nest. The illustration, 

 taken from Cheshire, will show up the detail of the 

 new Quinby hive. — Ed.] 



Perhaps no name is better known among, 

 and no other man has done so mueh for, the 

 bee-keepers of New York than the late Capt. 

 Hetherington, of Cherry Valley, N. Y. For 

 a period of over twenty years he was by far 



FIG. 1. — HUBERT HETHERINGTON BEARS A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO HIS FATHER, CAP- 

 TAIN HETHERINGTCN. 



clear over the frames and down to the bottom-board 

 which projects around on all four sides. lo the height 

 of the honey-flow this cap is raised up to take in one 

 or more supers, as shown in the several illustrations. 

 During winter the supers are, of course, removed when 

 the cap is fastened to the bottom-board, making what 



HOW THE QTTINBY FRAME HOOK,S ON TO THE BOTTOM 



is, to all intents and purposes, a dead-air space. The 

 closed ends of the Hetherington-Quinby frame, the 

 two side panels, and the honey-board, make up the in- 

 ner walls of the brood-nest, and the before-described 

 cap, the outer walls. During the height of the season 



the most extensive bee-keeper in this or any 

 other country, his yards comprising some 

 3000 colonies scattered in various places both 

 north and south. 

 Though more or less interested in bees be- 

 fore the civil war, it was 

 not until the close of 

 that great struggle, in 

 which he played a con- 

 spicuous and honorable 

 part, that he became a 

 bee-keeper on a large 

 scale. 



The Virginia apiaries 

 were largely the result 

 of that war, for it was 

 while campaigning 

 through that State the 

 captain noted the great 

 variety and abundance 

 of honey - producing 

 plants — notably the blue thistle; and it was 

 the remembrance of it that led him in later 

 years to plant a number of apiaries in the 

 Shenandoah Valley. 



