. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 377 found some delicious strained honey put up in pint Mason jars with pieces of comb honey inserted. The grocer said, by way of guarantee of quality, that it was produced in his own api- ary in the suburbs of the town. If there is anything more interest- ing to the average beekeeper than bees, it is the other beekeeper, who, from the peculiar conditions in his locality has adopted a method and practice that would seem to be at wide variance with the orthodox teachings of the text-books, and has made a success of it. I was mu
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 377 found some delicious strained honey put up in pint Mason jars with pieces of comb honey inserted. The grocer said, by way of guarantee of quality, that it was produced in his own api- ary in the suburbs of the town. If there is anything more interest- ing to the average beekeeper than bees, it is the other beekeeper, who, from the peculiar conditions in his locality has adopted a method and practice that would seem to be at wide variance with the orthodox teachings of the text-books, and has made a success of it. I was much in- terested in this apiary, for it was of the box-hive type, and the owner could give what appeared to be good reasons for the practice. Briefly told, his experience was that he had gone into the business in a small way, us- ing "patent" hives, as all hives other than box are called locally, and that the bees could not protect themselves from the ravages of the caterpillar (presumably the bee-moth.) The re- sult was that he was soon out of the bee business, thoroughly discouraged. On the advice of an extensive and successful Florida beekeeper, he tried again, using the type, or types, of hives shown in the pictures, with success. The hive standing on end is the parent hive of the yard, kept for in- crease only. No honey is ever taken from it and it is allowed to swarm without restraint. The horizontal hives are the ones from which the honey crop is harvested or, to use the local term, are "; The method of robbing, which is never done after the month of May, is as follows: The board forming the back end of the hive, and which is but lightly nailed, is taken off and smoke used to drive the bees from the first comb. A shallow square pan is inserted under the comb and with a thin blade the comb is cut from the sides and top of the hive, laid back on the pan and removed. Smoke is used again and the process repeated until the desired amount of honey has
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