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'allowed to run all the time, and that the reel 

 of the extractor is stopped by simply releas- 

 ing the idler, thus loosening the belt and 

 applying the larake. When the engine is 

 running alone a sensitive governor cuts off 

 practically all the gasoline and electricity, 

 so that there is almost no waste. With this 

 plan it is unnecessary to place the engine 

 and extractor at any exact distance apart. 

 They are simply placed so that, when the 

 belt is in position on the pulleys, it has some 

 slack. Since the idler does not need to be 

 at any fixed position, it is obvious that it will 

 take care of the slack in the belt unless there 

 is altogether too much or too little. 



S03IE YORK-STATE BEE-KEEPERS. 



F. A. Lockhai't. the Queen-breeder, of Lake 

 George. 



BY 1). EVERETT LYON. 



About three miles from Fort William Hen- 

 ry, and on about (iOU feet up a mountain-side, 

 is the house of F. A. Lo(-khart. He is well 

 known to the readers of Gleanin(;s as a 

 breeder of Cai'uiolan bees as a specialty. 

 While Italian bees of the long-tongued vari- 

 ety and Banat bees are I'eared, yet Mr. Lock- 

 hart has been best known as a careful breed- 

 er of Carniolans. Some bee-keepers have 

 objected to this race, not alone on the ground 

 of swarming, but also because some strains 

 of them vary so in color. Mr. Lockhart has, 

 by conscientious and careful breeding, pro- 



APIARY AT LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. 



duced as beautiful a type of Carniolans as I 

 have ever seen, and I have seen them in dif- 

 ferent parts of the United States. 



From 50 colonies of pure Carniolans he 

 produced in one season over 7000 lbs. of 

 coml) honey, and had Init 7 swarms out of 

 the 50 colonies. Of course, in every colony 

 he practiced "shook swarming," which ac- 

 counts for only 7 natural swarms. This, cer- 

 tainly, is not a bad showing for a race of 

 bees that have been charged with carrying 

 the swarming impulse to extremes. 



Mr. Lockhart has 700 full colonies in out- 

 apiaries, and about 500 nuclei for rearing 

 queens. As he does most of the work him- 

 self he says it pays him to have two nuclei 

 in an eight-frame hive, and three or four 

 Langstroth frames to each nucleus. This 

 saves much time and care, as no feeding is 

 required. 



Another big advantage he finds is that they 

 are better able to put up a fight against rob- 

 bers, especially when he is doing work among 

 them after the honey-fiovv has stopped. If a 

 rare case of roljlnng does occur he stops it 

 very quickly \)j squirting some kerosene oil 

 about the hive entrance, with an oil-can, and 

 in a few minutes all is at rest. 



I was very much amused at the editor's 

 account of how Quirin the queen-breeder did 

 his woi'k with lightning speed; but after a 

 few days' visit with Lockhart I felt that he 

 was in the same class with (^uirin for work. 



Recently, while tilling a lai'ge order, Mr. 

 Lockhart found and clipped 150 queens in 

 three hours. 



