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Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ire lower bodiesand all the frames that contained brood inthe upper supers. This honey I retailedfor .+1.25 per gallon. From the cappingsof this yard 1 extracted 9 lbs. of beeswax at27 cents per pound, making a total incomeof $1G-L96. My expenses were three menat .1=2.00 per day, taking half a day, $3.00.;containers, $8.40, this giving me a net prof-it of $153.56. Tliese fisures are onlv^ from the first extracting, and J feel sure I sliall be abhto extiact twice more before the flow isover, as the Avhite clover (which is oui-principal crop) is just now at ils best. Iam confident that by the 25th of this monthf-lune) my bees will be just as rich. There is no ciuestion but that this is agreat suiplus for the wonderful little bees;but after noticing the white clover in thefoieground of this picture, and knowingtliat there are hundreds of acres surround-ing, it makes my statement more plausible.We are also in the center of the crimson-clover belt. 1 have never seen the honev-flou- better.
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One of eight apiai-i<s uwiuhI I \ a banker, -J. J. Moyers, Fayetteville, Tfim. SKPTEitBEK 1. 19 If) It seems as if (lifv uiiglit have a runniuiifounlain. In 1914 ami 1915 the crop was almosta complete failure in this section, cansinji aloss of about half of all colonies in thissection, due to starvation. After banking hours are over my sparehonis fire spent witli the bees. For jtiotil and jdeasure 1 tind tliere is nothing better.My two observation hives, as shown inGleanings, June 15, 1914, 1 keej) al myhome. They are my greatest j)els. Kvenmy baby loves them. Every beekeepershould have one or moie observation liives.Ten times the worth of mine would not l)uyIhem. FavetleAiUc, Tenn. WHAT I DO ON MY ROUNDS OF THE OUTYARDS nv iiir.TON c. BEnRv Twenty-five years ago 1 joined the bee-keepers fraternity by annexing to my smalllot of boyhood poSvSessions two old gums ofIdack bees bought from a neighbor whoke))t a few bees in the old-style way. Afterhaving carefully closed up the hives wi

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