1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



551 



A feeding-bottle (with perforat- 

 ed metal screw cap) is inverted 

 over wire netting (tacked to un- 

 der side of hole just fitting the 

 top of the bottle) between the mag- 

 nifying feeder and the super. 



There is also the same form of 

 feeding-hole in the cover of the 

 super (not shown in the illustra- 

 tion) so that the super may be 

 isolated as a separate miniature 

 hive, on the principle of baby nu- 

 clei, for experiments in queen- 

 rearing; that is, of course, if eggs 

 and larva' have been placed in 

 one or both of the sections in this 

 miniature siiper. 



Thus, in compact form, I have 

 an apparatus for showing prac- 

 tically or biologically almost ev- 

 ery thing that pertains to apicul- 

 ture. In fact, with this outfit and 

 a supplementary box of small ap- 

 paratus, and with specimens of 

 the actual work of the bees (se- 

 cured at various times in my api- 

 arian laboratory) in comb and 

 cell making, I do show almost 

 all the essentials. 



FIG, 1. — DR. BIGELOW'S TRAVELER'S AND LECTURERS 

 HIVE. 



The main part of this traveler's hive fits 

 evenly into a dress-suit case that is fastened 

 by a pair of metal clasps at the top, and by 

 straps going, entirely around the outside. 

 When carrying the case by hand I use both 

 the clasps and the straps; but when it is rest- 

 ing on the fioor, as opportunity may permit 

 I use the straps only, allowing the ease to 

 stand open for about three inches for venti- 

 lation. 



When necessary I also take my bees in 

 this form to bed with me by placing the 

 dress-suit case lengthwise at my head in the 



FIG. 2.— THE 



TRAVELER S AND 

 CLOSED. 



LECTURER S IJIVE 



Pullman .sleeper. There is plenty of room 

 for my pillow at the side, and we sleep, ap- 

 proximately ten thousand and one in a bed. 

 For years some enthusiastic apiarists have 

 recommended bees as a sure cure for rheu- 

 matism; but 1 think that I may take honor 

 to myself as the first in the field to advocate 

 bees as a direct specific in cases of insomnia! 

 The gentle murmur of ten thousand honey- 

 bees all night by your pillow, or under it, 

 has a soothing etfect, to be fully appreciated 

 only by those who have faithfully tried it. 

 At the Jenkintown convention I saw a 

 demonstration of apparatus for 

 applying bees to cure rheumatism . 

 1 suggest that, at the next conven- 

 tion. The A. 1. Koot Company ex- 

 hibit a bed-fellow hive to cure in- 

 somnia! Perhaps we bee-keepers 

 have been too careless in allowing 

 the impression to be made that the 

 effect of the bees is just the re- 

 verse of an insomnia cure. If so, 

 I take the initiative in denying 

 that misrepresentation. No more 

 soothing effect can he obtained 

 from any source than from the 

 cheerful, 'contented hum of my ten 

 thousand apiarian bed-fellows. 



But 1 fancy some incredulous 

 person, ignorant of most of the 

 charms of honey-bees, rises to in- 

 quire, "Aren't they ever trouble- 

 some in bed ? What if they should 

 get loose?" 



By acciilent I once happened to 

 get into an "off grade" hotel m a 

 small town of the middle West. 

 I stayed but one night, and not all 

 of that. I was never so early a 

 riser. Before daylight I was on 

 the street with a dress-suit case in 



