. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1016. 21 accept. I did. The change from a thickly populated manufacturing State to that outof-the-way rural spot was so abrupt that I felt out of place and had to bring a good part of my adaptability into play to become reconciled to the new situation. My church was located two miles distant on Basswood Hill,in the center of the "town," said town supposed to be six miles square with an enrollment of 1)0 qualified voters at the last elec- tion. One day one of my parishioners, a thoughtful man, brought me a beehive. He thought it woul
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, 1016. 21 accept. I did. The change from a thickly populated manufacturing State to that outof-the-way rural spot was so abrupt that I felt out of place and had to bring a good part of my adaptability into play to become reconciled to the new situation. My church was located two miles distant on Basswood Hill,in the center of the "town," said town supposed to be six miles square with an enrollment of 1)0 qualified voters at the last elec- tion. One day one of my parishioners, a thoughtful man, brought me a beehive. He thought it would be well for me to tinker with something of this sort. He claimed for it both pleasure and profit. It was accepted. I recalled that my grandfather in Europe had been a bee- keeper whose rows of straw skeps I often watched in the summer waiting for the "big bee" to come out of which I heard him speak occasionally. With visions of my boyhood days I readily seized the opportunity of be- coming a beekeeper myself, though it had to be on a small scale. I knew nothing about bees, so I ven- tured a few questions. The man who. Campanilla HoNEy brought the hive told me that there were yellow bees, called Italians and black German bees. The yellow bees, he said, were considered gentle, while the "Germans" had a bad reputation as ferocious stingers. Mine were mixed, the blacks predominating. Furthermore I was advised to give the hive some kind of winter protection in the shape of an old carpet or quilt, and in order to keep the ants out, the hive should be raised up from the ground. Of course, no honey could be expected until the bees had swarmed next Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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