. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jlay, 1914. fAmerican ^e Journal | course, it may be left permanently in the tree if so desired. But there is no need of putting the hive up in a tree. It may be anywhere where bees can get to it; better where it is to stand per- manently. We have had a number of swarms come and occupy vacant hives standing in the apiary, with no thought of their being used as decoys. One or more old brood-combs in the hive will make it much more attractive to the Major Gustavus F. Merriam G. F. Merriam was born in Leyden, Lewis Co., New York, Oct. 17, 1835, an
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jlay, 1914. fAmerican ^e Journal | course, it may be left permanently in the tree if so desired. But there is no need of putting the hive up in a tree. It may be anywhere where bees can get to it; better where it is to stand per- manently. We have had a number of swarms come and occupy vacant hives standing in the apiary, with no thought of their being used as decoys. One or more old brood-combs in the hive will make it much more attractive to the Major Gustavus F. Merriam G. F. Merriam was born in Leyden, Lewis Co., New York, Oct. 17, 1835, and died in Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 2t), 1914. He was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He resigned and enlisted in the War of the Rebellion as First Lieutenant, and was promoted to Major and Chief of Artillery of the Department of West Virginia, in command of Maryland Heights and Bollivar Heights at Har- per's Ferry. At the close of the war he moved to Topeka, Kan., and entered into the wholesale and retail dry goods business. In 1875 he moved to California, chiefly in quest of his wife's health, and settled on a ranch in San Diego county, which he named Twin Oaks, and which still bears the name. His great love for beekeeping prompted him to bring 40 colonies with him from Topeka, but the long, slow route to San Francisco, and thence to San Diego by steamer, and last but not least the trip through the rugged mountain trail of 40 miles proved too much for the little fellows, and he arrived with but three colonies alive. Beginning with these, and with what he could dig out of the caves and trees, he soon worked up a fine apiary of nearly 200 colonies. Then came the long series of drouths that the bee man of California learns sooner or later but inevitably to bear. From 1879 to '83 he saw his hard earned apiary gradually shrink until the early spring of '84 found him with but 63 colonies to begin work with again. Then came the " turn in the
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