. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 664 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 18 1900. i1/r. John Diveky and Apiary. after a sumptuous dinner at his elegant home, hitcht up his speed-awav horse, and took us to visit a few of the bee- keepers in that locality. The honey crop the past season had been only about a quarter the usual amount, the princi- pal source being- sweet clover, we believe. We first called on Mr. John Mareth, who has a very nice yard of some 80 colonies. He runs principally for comb honey. Mr. Mareth is a pleasant young man, work- ing in the shops as a foundry-man, so he has but l
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 664 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 18 1900. i1/r. John Diveky and Apiary. after a sumptuous dinner at his elegant home, hitcht up his speed-awav horse, and took us to visit a few of the bee- keepers in that locality. The honey crop the past season had been only about a quarter the usual amount, the princi- pal source being- sweet clover, we believe. We first called on Mr. John Mareth, who has a very nice yard of some 80 colonies. He runs principally for comb honey. Mr. Mareth is a pleasant young man, work- ing in the shops as a foundry-man, so he has but little time to devote to his bees. Still, he is making a success with them, as he well deserves to do. Mr. John Divekey was the next '• victim " we saw, a picture of whose apiary is here presented, and is the oldest bee-keeper in the place. He is contentedly sitting on one of the hives. He was born in Germany, and there commenced hand- ling bees when 10 years of age, using at that time the old straw hive. He came to his present place in 1857, and in 1858 built the comfortable home that he now lives in. At the rear is a large lot that extends to the river, on which he has kept bees for 42 years. Tho he has held the position of foreman of the coach department of the C. B. & O. railroad shop all these years, his spare time has always been spent with the bees, and none in that locality has had a longer or more practical apiarian experience than he. At times he has had as many as 225 colonies. Mr. Divekey was the first bee-keeper there to import and introduce the Italian bees, in the days when the intro- ducing of queens in boxhives was an entirely different process from the operation in the dovetailed hive of to-day. Tho many years have past over his head, he still has the same interest in his bees, and works with them with even more pleasure than he did 40 years ago. With his quiet, homelike disposition, Mr. Divekey is always ready to tell of his experiences, and to impa
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