. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 301. CONDUCTED BY MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY, Beeville, Texas. Melons by the Wagonload. This looks like the Paradise of the world now. Great herds of fat cattle— good beef at 4 cents per pound ; pastures like a wheat field, and gardens with great loads of vegetables. We are haul- ing wagonloads of water-melons to our hogs, and the bees are working like May. Jennie Atchley. Beeville, Tex., Aug. 25. in a Court House. A sheriff in a neighboring county has been trying to rid his county house of bees for some time. After several un- successf
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 301. CONDUCTED BY MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY, Beeville, Texas. Melons by the Wagonload. This looks like the Paradise of the world now. Great herds of fat cattle— good beef at 4 cents per pound ; pastures like a wheat field, and gardens with great loads of vegetables. We are haul- ing wagonloads of water-melons to our hogs, and the bees are working like May. Jennie Atchley. Beeville, Tex., Aug. 25. in a Court House. A sheriff in a neighboring county has been trying to rid his county house of bees for some time. After several un- successful attempts by so-called bee- men, to take the bees out, and each time they being driven away with big noses, showing they had the worst of the tight, the " Bee-Hivers " were sent for (this is the name Willie and Charlie go by), and people gathered around that court house like a circus crowd, to see Willie get stung. But, alas, the "bee-hivers" charmed the vicious hybrids with a Bingham "Doctor" smoker the first thing, and then " went into them " with- out veil, gloves, or any more smoke, with their sleeves rolled up, and took out 80 pounds of nice honey from one colony that had occupied that court house 10 years. There had been 5 colonies in the court house cornice, but the last July hot wave " got away with" all but the old tough one. The boys around town caught gallons of dripping honey from the melted combs, and the honey ran on the ground for several yards around. Well, that people now sure enough be- lieve that Willie is a bee-charmer, when the only secret lies in knowing how. Willie took out all the honey, trans- ferred the brood-combs into frames, put the bees into an 8-frame hive, gave the people honey to eat, and drove off home with his treasure, as happy as a boy could well be, wishing he had a hundred such court houses to rub. .We left a lot of empty hives at a neighbor's on the road, and, when we went after them,
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