. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feb. 23, 1905. THE AMERIC;*N BEE JOURNAL. 137 I napt J. F. HRtliRrlnntnn: m-umr.\mmim soldier I Written by P. H. ELWOOD, of New York. THE subject of this sketch would have gained distinction in any occupation, for he was endowed by Nature with boundless energy and indomitable will-power, coupled with organizing and executive abilities such as would have quickly placed him at the head in any large undertaking. His power of comprehending the whole was no less remark- able than his ability to grasp at the same time the minute details of an extensive busi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feb. 23, 1905. THE AMERIC;*N BEE JOURNAL. 137 I napt J. F. HRtliRrlnntnn: m-umr.\mmim soldier I Written by P. H. ELWOOD, of New York. THE subject of this sketch would have gained distinction in any occupation, for he was endowed by Nature with boundless energy and indomitable will-power, coupled with organizing and executive abilities such as would have quickly placed him at the head in any large undertaking. His power of comprehending the whole was no less remark- able than his ability to grasp at the same time the minute details of an extensive business. Had he at maturity en- gaged in some extensive industrial operation, such as rail- road construction, mining, or manufacturing, undoubtedly success would quickly have been his with its attendant wealth; but long before this, while yet in his teens, circum- stances and inclination led him into a new and untrodden field—that of making bee-culture a specialty—a separate and successful branch of agriculture. At this early date there were no bee-books nor bee- papers ; no movable-comb hives, no honey extractors, no bee-smokers, no comb foundation—nothing in fact to war- rant the average bee-keeper to believe that bee-culture could be made a separate and independent business. Yet Capt. Hetherington believed it could be done, and made it a spe- cialty from the beginning, being first, I think, to depend entirely upon the sale of honey and wax for his livelihood, and the maintenance and upbuilding of the business. His intimate friend and co-laborer, Moses Quinby, always regarded him as the ablest exponent of modern bee- culture, and as pre-eminently the one to demonstrate to the world that bee-keeping as a business could be made as uni- formly successful as any other branch of agriculture. How well he has done this a faithful history of his life should recite, but no one can tell of the time and energy, and money, spent in reaching this result, nor can any one ever fully kno
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