. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 16, 1905. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 203. APlAKi U¥ J AS. ilAKTIN, OF KALKASKA CO., MiCH. This apiary, of about 100 colonies, was built up in two years from 12 colonies, and a little honey taken. The enthusiasm of a beginner, together with over 4000 pounds of extracted raspberry bloom, did it. seeds tu germinate), but, if one has the patience to wait, it is very profit- able in the end. Mr. Chapman told me that he sometimes wished that he had " gone into it " years ago when he began bee-keeping, but doubted if he should bother with it n
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 16, 1905. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 203. APlAKi U¥ J AS. ilAKTIN, OF KALKASKA CO., MiCH. This apiary, of about 100 colonies, was built up in two years from 12 colonies, and a little honey taken. The enthusiasm of a beginner, together with over 4000 pounds of extracted raspberry bloom, did it. seeds tu germinate), but, if one has the patience to wait, it is very profit- able in the end. Mr. Chapman told me that he sometimes wished that he had " gone into it " years ago when he began bee-keeping, but doubted if he should bother with it now. One man near Mr. Chapman's started two years ago, and now has gardens worth $5000, but he advertised and posted notices all over the country offering good prices for roots, and probably paid out a good share of his $5000 for stock. THE RED AND ITS HONEY. But I must stop wandering and get down to business. I must take up the feature in which bee-keepers are spec- ially interested. When this hard tim- ber is cut off the wild red raspberries spring up and occupy the ground, and furnish the most reliable bee-pasturage there is to be found. The luxuriance of the growth is something wonderful. Many times, in riding along a woods- road, have I been able to reach out and pick the luscious ripe berries as we passed—the bushes being so tall and bending with fruit. I supposed that the wild red raspberry blossomed only a week or two, and then was done, but such is not the case. It keeps in bloom fully as long as white clover. It be- gins the last of May or the first of June, and when I was there, the latter part of July, the bees were still work- ing upon it. If there is a drouth in August, and there are rains and warm weather in September, it sometimes blossoms again, and furnishes a sec- ond crop of honey. One bee-keeper told me that his daughter visited him the Fourth of July, and they went out and picked enough berries to have a shortcake; in September she came again,
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