. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Publisht Weekly at 118 Michigan St. Gbobob W. York, Editor. $ a Year—Sample Copy Free. 38th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 13, 1898. No. MR. GEORGE !§. WHEELER. The following sketch of Mr. George S. Wheeler, of Hlllsboro Co., N. H., was kindly written by Mr. H. A. Fish, who evidently is well acquainted with Mr. Wheeler: The Subject of this sketch was born In Hlllsboro Co., N. H., on the farm where he now lives, as did his father and grandfather, who built the house over 100 years ago. The son, " George," had charge of the farm for seve
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Publisht Weekly at 118 Michigan St. Gbobob W. York, Editor. $ a Year—Sample Copy Free. 38th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 13, 1898. No. MR. GEORGE !§. WHEELER. The following sketch of Mr. George S. Wheeler, of Hlllsboro Co., N. H., was kindly written by Mr. H. A. Fish, who evidently is well acquainted with Mr. Wheeler: The Subject of this sketch was born In Hlllsboro Co., N. H., on the farm where he now lives, as did his father and grandfather, who built the house over 100 years ago. The son, " George," had charge of the farm for several years be- fore the death of his father, which occurred in 1892. Mr. Wheeler bought his first colony of bees in 1856. This colony was the center of attraction for a long tipie. When it was brought home it was set in a bee-house prepared for it. The hive was a box-hive, 12x12x14 inches, with a compartment on top for two 10-pound boxes of honey. Four dollars worth of honey was sold the first season, leaving enough in the brood-chamber for the winter. The cost of the bees was An Italian queen was bought of K. P. Kidder, of Burling- ton, Vt., some time in the '60's, for which § was paid. The next season some 20 colonies had queens Introduced, reared from the Kidder queen, and about every bee reared from her queens showed three bands, and were as well markt as the old queen. When these queens took their wedding flight the yard was full of black drones, but Mr. Wheeler thinks the drones from the Italians must have mated with them all. But the next season, when about every drone in the yard was Italian, he could hardly get a queen but what would produce hybrid bees, largely black, so he later con- cluded that the^rst cross could not be told from pure Italians so far as stripes went, and he has never had reason to change that view. Since Mr. Wheeler started with Italian bees he has never had over 50 colonies at one time, usually about 25. He has always had bees on th
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