. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MR. P. H. This week we present to our readers the portrait of Philip Henry Elwood, of Starkville, N. Y. For some time he has contributed replies to the queries pub-. P. H. ELWOOD. lished weekly in the Bee Jouenal, and occasionally an article has appeared from his cultured and efficient pen. In 1889, at the convention of the North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- tion held in Keokuk, Iowa, Mr. Elwood was elected President for the year 1890. In the last edition of the " A B C of Bee-Culture," Dr. Miller says that Mr. Elwood is a good il
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MR. P. H. This week we present to our readers the portrait of Philip Henry Elwood, of Starkville, N. Y. For some time he has contributed replies to the queries pub-. P. H. ELWOOD. lished weekly in the Bee Jouenal, and occasionally an article has appeared from his cultured and efficient pen. In 1889, at the convention of the North American Bee-Keepers' Associa- tion held in Keokuk, Iowa, Mr. Elwood was elected President for the year 1890. In the last edition of the " A B C of Bee-Culture," Dr. Miller says that Mr. Elwood is a good illustration of the healthf ulness of bee-keeping as a voca- tion. At the age of 23 he was advised by his physicians to abandon a college course and choose some out-door occupa- tion, and now P. H. Elwood, the bee- keeper, is known as a man who tips the scales at 225 pounds. Soon after leaving school he was offered a desirable position as teacher of natural sciences in a high school In Michigan, but the offer was refused. In 1872, at the age of 25, he commenced bee-keeping as a partner of Capt. Heth- erington. This partnership was profit- ably continued for five years, when he removed a distance of ten miles to Stark- ville, Herkimer County, N. Y., where he has since remained, to carry on the business of producing honey. He was happily married in 1879. Mr. E. is a conservative bee-keeper, little inclined to rush after new things simply because they are neW, and is sometimes accused of being at fault in not placing sufficient confidence in the recommendations of others. He cares more to be sure that his plans and im- plements are such as experience proves the best, than to be constantly trying to invent something new. He uses the small Quinby hive, and after giving a thorough trial to out-door wintering, he winters his bees exclu- sively in cellars. The larger part of his comb honey is put up in two-pound glassed boxes, and it was his honey that took the first premium at the Paris
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