Everett Franklin Phillips (1878-1951) was a renowned American apiculturist, scholar, and innovator in the beekeeping field. Phillips’ interest in honey bees began during his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. As part of his studies, he spent the summers of 1903 and 1904 in Medina, Ohio, with the A. I. Root family, befriending E. R. Root. While there, he completed the first of what would become more than 600 written works on bees. This particular article appeared in the September 1903 edition of Gleanings in Bee Culture.