. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?^ ^ ^ ^ ^" 39th YEAR. CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 21, 1899 No, 51,. A Bee-Fever that Resulted in Two Apiaries. BY W. H. HBIM. I FIND apiculture a very pleasant and instructive as well as profitable business in connection with my other duties, as I am employed by a candy manufacturing- company. It may seem very strange to get the bee-fever in a candy factory, but it is a fact, and I am going- to tell how it happened. June 20, 1894, there came a run-a-way swarm Of bees to our candy factory. A large walnut tree is standing in front of the building, on w
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?^ ^ ^ ^ ^" 39th YEAR. CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 21, 1899 No, 51,. A Bee-Fever that Resulted in Two Apiaries. BY W. H. HBIM. I FIND apiculture a very pleasant and instructive as well as profitable business in connection with my other duties, as I am employed by a candy manufacturing- company. It may seem very strange to get the bee-fever in a candy factory, but it is a fact, and I am going- to tell how it happened. June 20, 1894, there came a run-a-way swarm Of bees to our candy factory. A large walnut tree is standing in front of the building, on which clustered this swarm of bees. It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 5 o'clock the factory whistle blew—not to give an alarm of fire, but simph' to quit work. I then got a small bos ready, and up the walnut tree I went 35 feet after that swarm of bees, without bee-veil or gloves ; and with a pocket-knife I cut off the limb on which the swarm of bees had clustered, put the bees into the box, and took it to my home. The next day out came the swarm, not being satisfied with the small box. I then got a Simplicity hive from a bee-keeper, and successfully hived them. Then followed what you maj' call a genuine case of bee-fever, and I am sorry to say that the fever is as bad as ever. Picture No. 1 shows what is now my home apiary of 22 colonies in the back ofmy lot, which is very small—only SO by 90 feet—yet I think that 30 colonies could be managed on this small space of ground. My apiary is located on the west and north sides; on the south (which is not shown) is my poultry-yard, where I keep sev- eral varieties of poultry, as bees and poultry are my pleas- ure. Here I spend all my leisure time in looking after them. My home apiary is chiefly managed for rearing queens and producing comb honey. The past season I tried the plain sections, also the 3jsxSxl'2, or the Ideal super, and find a good sale for honey in these sections. My honey crop was very light, as it w
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