1907 



GLEANINGS IN BKE CULTURE. 



629 



APIAKY OF GKEGOKY BKUNDAGE, SALISBURY MILLS, N. Y. 



The rush keeps up through the afternoon, 

 and, if any thing, the nectar tiow increases 

 as the afternoon wanes. Darkness alone puts 

 a stop to the work, and affords the bees a 

 chance to prepare for another day of labor. 



We sometimes pay dearly for those exces- 

 sive flows, caused as they are by hot waves 

 of great intensity, for the flowers are either 

 blasted or else matured so rapidly as to cut 

 the season off short. It is much better that 

 the weather be moderately hot, not to exceed 

 85 in the shade, and thereby have the season 

 extend over a longer period of time. 



Norwich, Conn. 



NEAV YORK STATE BEE-KEEPERS. 



i'e;s?orj^ Brundaffe, of Salisbury Mills. N. 

 Y.; the Man. the Location, the Method; 

 the Value of Lar^-e Powerful 

 Colonies. 



BY D. EVERETT LYON. 



Field Correspondent for Gleanings. 



MB. BRUNDAOE AND HIS TWO HELPERS 



Lying ten miles back of Newburg, past 

 which the silvery Hudson wends its sinuous 

 way, and nestling beneath the shade of Storm 

 King Mountain, is the little village of Salis- 

 bury Mills, N. Y. The intei'est in the village 

 to bee-keepers lies not 

 so much in that it has 

 large paper - mills, as 

 that it is the home of as 

 progressive a bee-keep- 

 er as can be found in 

 the Empire State. Mr. 

 Brundage is a born bee- 

 keeper, and takes real 

 delight in working 

 among his "pets" as 

 he calls them. 



The Brundage home 

 is a typical farmhouse 

 with great shading trees 

 in the front yard, and 

 in it is dispensed a hos 

 pitality of a royal order. 

 The location is not an 

 unusual one, there be- 

 ing practically no buck- 

 wheat as in the upper 

 portions of the State; 

 nevertheless there is a 

 good early and late flow, 



