1919 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



231 



twenty colonies, since he was no 

 longer equal to the physical exertion 

 necessary to care for a large number 



I count it a great privilege to have 

 known Eugene Secor intimately and, 

 in common with others, feel a sense 

 of great personal loss in his going. 

 His memory will be cherished in 

 many breasts to the end of life, as 

 the following poem, clipped from his 

 home paper indicates was his greatest 

 wish : 



If I Should Die Tonight 

 An atom in the vast universe, 



A bit of star dust in a field of light 

 Am I, nor would the world its course 

 reverse 



If I should die tonight. 



The air is full of spirits of the past, 

 Spirits that once to the flesh were 

 clear to sight ; 



Forgotten all. as I shall be at last 

 If I should die tonight. 



But deeds, not men, are what alone 

 survive, 

 Pure thoughts are angels clad in 

 garments white. 

 Will words or deeds of mine remain 

 alive 

 If I should die tonight? 



Shall one kind act, one unremem- 

 bered wrong, 

 One helpful word by me to cheer 

 the right. 

 One phrase remain to speed the truth 

 along 

 If I should die tonight? 



Of all the ones I know who call me 

 friend 

 Would one. just one, for life keep 

 memory bright 

 With some sweet thought I spake 

 while here, or penned. 

 If I should die tonight? 



— Eugene Secor. 



But these, too, did not entirely sat- 

 isfy me; they excluded the queens 

 all right, but I mistrusted they were 

 honey excluders as well as queen ex- 

 cluders. After that I used excluders 

 with .172-inch perforations. I could 

 not find them in market, but had 

 them made on my special order. I 



Troubles With an Obstinate Queen 



By G. C. Greiner 



WHEN I first changed from the 

 production of comb honey to 

 that of extracted I knew from 

 former experience that a clean, ap- 

 petizing article could not be produced 

 without the use of excluders. I had 

 occasionally used an extractor for 

 the- purpose of reducing an overplus 

 of honey from the brood-chamber. 

 Some of the combs from which I in- 

 tended to extract the honey con- 

 tained, quite frequently, more or less 

 brood in different stages of develop- 

 ment, and it was next to impossible 

 to extract the honey without disturb- 

 ing the brood. Even with the slowest 

 motion of the extractor that would 

 throw out honey at all, quite a show- 

 ing of different sized larvae would be 

 floating on the honey. 



This decided the excluder question 

 for me. The first dozen I used did 

 not prove satisfactory. They were of 

 earlier days' make and the bee- 

 passages were much too large, giving 

 the queens access to the supers in 

 too many cases. Of course, I dis- 

 carded them and instead tried the 

 regular standard make of the present 

 day, having .163 inch perforations. 



am not positively sure that I get 

 more honey by their use, but they 

 certainly are easier for the bees to 

 pass through them, and they exclude 

 queens as well as those finer ones 

 with .163-inch perforations. 



The reason why I have bri fly out- 

 lined my excluder experience in the 



_rounds at Forest City. 

 tion of trees and shrubs 



had the finest collec- 



