EDITORIAL 
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Association, but not until the second 
ArcAdiA when all the buildings were 
moved across the street and fields to 
the present location did the apiary be- 
come the property of The Agassiz As- 
sociation. Under these auspices it has 
been wonderfully developed and ex- 
tensively utilized as headquarters for 
information. Through its influence 
twenty apiaries at least have been 
established in Stamford. Greenwich 
and vicinity and innumerable apiaries 
in other states. For several years the 
editor of this magazine has lectured 
before school-teachers through the 
W est, the far West and the South, and 
in many of these places has included a 
lecture on honeybees and made liberal 
distribution of literature supplied by 
The A. I. Root Company, [Medina, 
Ohio. That company, as well as prac- 
tical beekeepers everywhere, have lib- 
erally cooperated in the growth, devel- 
opment and efficiency of the ArcAdiA 
apiary. Twenty-five queen breeders in 
various parts of the country have sup- 
plied the choicest queens for experi- 
ment and report. Manufacturers and 
inventors have given the best of their 
product to this apiary. There is hardly 
a modern invention in the market that 
is not here shown and explained to stu- 
dents and casual visitors. The corre- 
spondence on apiarian subjects has 
also been large, notably for some three 
years with the Boy Scouts of America 
following publication of articles in 
“Boys’ Life’ - by Dr. Edward F. Bige- 
low as Scout Naturalist of the Boy 
Scouts of America. 
Four sets of motion pictures have 
been taken at this apiary and shown 
over all the world. Indeed, we think 
this apiary in the millions of people that 
know it has had the widest publicity 
of any other apiary in the world. 
Photographs of honeybee interests 
have been published in many of our 
leading American magazines and in the 
large illustrated magazines of London, 
England. Large numbers of photo- 
graphs have been sent to French and 
German publications. At one time a 
photographic clearing house of New 
York City devoted a large part of its 
energy to buying ArcAdiA negatives, 
making prints therefrom and retailing 
to various publications. Similar work 
has been carried on extensively by the 
Stamford and New York City Pub- 
lishers’ Photo Service. The apiary in 
this extensive work has been developed 
and made efficient by contributions 
from many apiarists and by cash con- 
tributions to The Agassiz Association 
by those who take especial interest in 
the apiarian information that it has dis- 
seminated. It is probable that the in- 
influence of this apiary in promoting 
beekeeping both educational and prac- 
tical has been greater than that of any 
other establishment in the country. 
Four types of hives have been invented 
and placed in the market without being 
patented. One, an elaborate affair 
known as the Bigelow Educational 
Hive, is in itself a complete apiarian 
laboratory. The one supplied in wal- 
nut wood is a thing of beauty as well 
as a joy of convenience and comfort 
in experimenting. These hives have 
attracted much attention at World’s 
Fairs and at apiarian exhibits in Madi- 
son Square Garden, New York City, 
and at various other places. 
Another invention, the product of 
this apiary, is the only form of hive 
ever put in the market especially for the 
use of little children. For this purpose 
the Pearl Agnes Hive has become fa- 
mous the world over. 
At this apiary a variety of traveling 
hives has been invented. “The New 
York Tribune” at one time devoted 
nearly a page to an illustrated article 
entitled “Ten Thousand Miles with Ten 
Thousand Honeybees.” That no exag- 
geration. One of the traveling hives has 
been more than ten thousand miles with 
more than ten thonsand honeybees. 
Perhaps the most skillful and novel 
of all inventions was the magnifying 
feeder invented put in the market a few 
years ago. By this for the first time 
the observer is able to see the action 
of the honeybee’s tongue as it takes up 
the nectar. As the name of this inven- 
tion implies, a lens magnifies the 
tongues where the bees are feeding by 
extending their tongues or proboscides 
between two sheets of glass between 
which the nectar or syrup is placed. 
In the room devoted to microscopi- 
cal projection every detail of the honey- 
bee’s anatomy is shown on a large 
screen and in marvelous dimensions. 
A honeybee’s tongue thus projected 
may appear to be eight feet in diam- 
eter and when passed in sections across 
the screen, one hundred and fiftv feet 
