Gleanings in bee culture . sireto recall what 1 said—every word of it; and I assureyou that, if you mean what you say, 1 will say nomore. While these may not have been his precisewords (for remember that was over 20 yearsago) yet they convey the thought. , true to his word, never referred tothe matter again, and the hive question, atleast, was settled for all time. My only reason for repeating it here is toshow that Mr. Heddon had a big heart whenthe heart-strings were touched. Moral.—We often fight over somethingthat we fancy has extraordinary value whenit has not. The divisible-broo
Gleanings in bee culture . sireto recall what 1 said—every word of it; and I assureyou that, if you mean what you say, 1 will say nomore. While these may not have been his precisewords (for remember that was over 20 yearsago) yet they convey the thought. , true to his word, never referred tothe matter again, and the hive question, atleast, was settled for all time. My only reason for repeating it here is toshow that Mr. Heddon had a big heart whenthe heart-strings were touched. Moral.—We often fight over somethingthat we fancy has extraordinary value whenit has not. The divisible-brood-chamberhive or the shallow hive was thought to savehalf the labor in handling bees. It has beentried in the balance of Father Time, and,except in the hands of a few experts, hasbeen found wanting. Think of the pagesupon pages of printed matter, to say nothingof the volumes of correspondence and timethat was wasted. Think of the ill-feelingsand misunderstandings that might havebeen avoided. 46 Gleanings in Bee Culture. Fig. 1.—Marchants home yard of 400 colonies. Along the Appalachicola liiver as many as 500 coloniescan sometimes be supported in one yard. He has had as high as 600. BEE-KEEPING ON THE APPALACHICOLARIVER. Something More About that Wonderful HoneyCountry; the Extent of the Tupelos; the SuwaneeRiver, Famed in Song; Orange-growing Success-ful in Northern Florida where it Often FreezesHard. BY E. R. BOOT. In our Dec. 15th issue I told somethingabout the wonderful Appalachicola River, aregion where nearly 2000 barrels of honeyhas been produced in a single season froman area that is smaller, I venture to say,than almost any other area that has pro-duced only one-fourth of that amount ofhoney. Our friend A. B. Marchant, at Mar-chants Landing, where I showed that bigrow of barrels on page 753, is almost in theheart of this wonderful bee country alongthat remarkable river, fringed as it is withthe honey-bearing tupelo. In this connection permit me to say that,so fa
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