. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 15, 1909.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 14' VISIT TO DR. C. C. MILLER, [7132.] In October last Mrs. Schroder and myself made a trip to the United States, travelling by theCunarder Carpathia to New York, and then towards the West, stopping a few days in Chicago. Being only about eighty miles from Marengo, where Dr. C. C. Miller, the well-known bee-keeper and author, resides, we decided to call upon him, and left Chicago by rail, reaching Marengo in about two hours. After lunch in a small, but clean- looking, restaurant, we went to Dr. Mil
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 15, 1909.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 14' VISIT TO DR. C. C. MILLER, [7132.] In October last Mrs. Schroder and myself made a trip to the United States, travelling by theCunarder Carpathia to New York, and then towards the West, stopping a few days in Chicago. Being only about eighty miles from Marengo, where Dr. C. C. Miller, the well-known bee-keeper and author, resides, we decided to call upon him, and left Chicago by rail, reaching Marengo in about two hours. After lunch in a small, but clean- looking, restaurant, we went to Dr. Miller's residence, about four miles from Marengo, a very nice colonial house, sur- rounded by fields and bushes, with some outhouses, about a hundred yards from the main road. Notwithstanding the rainy weather, the place gave us a very from one hive has been the biggest " I ever had in my thirty-five vears' 93 lb. " take '" 1 ever had in my thirty- experience with bees! Miss Wilson, Dr. Miller's sister-in-law, also a well-known bee-keeper and writer, assured us that she could clean over a thousand sections in a day! In another house we met a nephew of the Doctor's, who was busy preparing crates. Here we saw how these were • made, how the sections were folded up on a little appliance from the well-prepared and grooved sections in the flat, and how the comb-foundations were fastened in these sections. This operation was ac- complished by the aid of an ingenious little machine containing a thin iron plate, heated by a candle, on which the founda- tion is placed inside the box, sticking fast. DR. C. C. MILLER IN HIS APIARY AT MARENGO, pleasant impression, and very friendly was the reception of the old gentleman, whom we disturbed during his afternoon nap. After I had taken some photos of Dr. Miller and Mrs. Miller, of which I enclose copies, the Doctor showed us over his place. We saw the cleaning and crating of sections, of which he had secured over 19,000, m
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