. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 169 think he Is doinK pretty well 1/ he can have all his sections ready to take off in twice ten days. Possibly, however, it is not so much the locality as the management. While others try to limit the number of drones, Mrs. Thornton kindly fos- ters them, and they repay this fostering kindness by fanning the air to ripen the honey. But has she not a different strain of drones ? for probably no one else has ever known drones to fan the air while in the hive. KEV. L. J. TEIWPLIN. L. J. Templln was born at Danville, Hendr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 169 think he Is doinK pretty well 1/ he can have all his sections ready to take off in twice ten days. Possibly, however, it is not so much the locality as the management. While others try to limit the number of drones, Mrs. Thornton kindly fos- ters them, and they repay this fostering kindness by fanning the air to ripen the honey. But has she not a different strain of drones ? for probably no one else has ever known drones to fan the air while in the hive. KEV. L. J. TEIWPLIN. L. J. Templln was born at Danville, Hendricks Co., Ind., Dec. 20, 1S3J:. He grew to manhood in Delaware and Henry counties of that State. He got his education in the public schools and by close reading aud study at home. At the age of 20 he began teaching in the Indiana common schools. In the spring of 1850 he was married to Miss Mary A. Lerner, of Howard Co., Ind. Two years later he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the North Indiana Con- ference. After four years of labor in this field, during which be was much of the time in the midst of great revivals, hun- dreds being converted ana added to the church under his labors, his health failed, and he has been a great sufferer from asthma. After the failure of his health, Mr. Templin located at Kokomo, Ind., and engaged in the nursery business. Dr. J. M. Hicks, of Indianapolis, became a member of the firm, add- ing a bee-department. It was here that Mr. T. became inter- ested in bee-keeping. His health proving too bad for the business, he sold out, and after traveling two years as emi- grant agent for the Santa Fe Riilroad Co., he moved to Hutchinson, Kans. Here he engaged in teaching the common schools, and also had charge of the scientific department of the Teachers' Normal Institute of his county for several years. His health continuing to decline, and his wife's health having utterly broken down before leaving Indiana, their next ujove was t
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