. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mrs. N. L. Stow and Her Apiary. BY 6E0EGE W. YORK. About three weeks ago we received a very cordial letter from Mrs. N. L. Stow, inviting Mrs. York and myself to visit her home and apiary in Evanston, 111., 11 miles north of Chi- cago. I replied that all being well we would be pleased to accept the generous invitation on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 1. The day came, and with it threatening clouds, but we took the train, and soon were at the station where Mrs. Stow's son, " Harry," met us with a two-seated carriage. Unbe- known to us, Mr. Stow an
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mrs. N. L. Stow and Her Apiary. BY 6E0EGE W. YORK. About three weeks ago we received a very cordial letter from Mrs. N. L. Stow, inviting Mrs. York and myself to visit her home and apiary in Evanston, 111., 11 miles north of Chi- cago. I replied that all being well we would be pleased to accept the generous invitation on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 1. The day came, and with it threatening clouds, but we took the train, and soon were at the station where Mrs. Stow's son, " Harry," met us with a two-seated carriage. Unbe- known to us, Mr. Stow and daughter were on the same train (as they both are employed in the city) ; so we all rode over to the Stow home and plantation, a good half mile, where we found Mrs. Stow and her apiary of some SO colonies of Ital- ian bees. In conversation with Mrs. Stow before going to the bee- yard, I learned that she began to keep bees in the spring of 1884, buying two colonies in lO-frama Langstroth hives from a bee-keeper in an adjoining town, and paying .f 10 per colony for them. Mrs. Stow, though entirely ignorant about bees, was compelled to do her own selecting of the colonies out of about a dozen, and how was she to judge, never having seen the inside of a bee-hive? Well, she looked carefully at the hive-entrances, and thought she saw rather more bees (lying at some than others, and so she chose those that seemed to have the most bees passing out and in. To show the wisdom of her choice, or luck, I may say that by fall she had increased to 8 colonies by natural swarming, and had about 70 pounds of honey. Upon asking Mrs. Stow how she happened to begin to keep bees, she said that she and Mr. Stow were very fond of animal pets—birds, for instance, and she has quite a little aviary—and they thought they would also like a few , more for the pleasure to be found in caring for them than for pecuniary profit. But with the pleasure there also came quite a little proBt, as some year
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