. Gleanings in bee culture . of seedthat I am selling at $6 per bushel. In the 20 years or more that I have beenraising the yellow sweet clover I have nothad a failure in a honey crop; besides, ithas built up the land greatly. It is far bet-ter for hay than the white, laeing much moreeasily cured. E. L. Snodgrass. Augusta, Kan. PROnT IN BACKLOT BEEKEEPING Began When 56 Years Old and Has Got a LotOut of It I am sending you two photos of my back-yard apiary, taken in summer while the cropwas on, and in the winter after the hiveswere packed. The photos might be of someuse to you to show to other
. Gleanings in bee culture . of seedthat I am selling at $6 per bushel. In the 20 years or more that I have beenraising the yellow sweet clover I have nothad a failure in a honey crop; besides, ithas built up the land greatly. It is far bet-ter for hay than the white, laeing much moreeasily cured. E. L. Snodgrass. Augusta, Kan. PROnT IN BACKLOT BEEKEEPING Began When 56 Years Old and Has Got a LotOut of It I am sending you two photos of my back-yard apiary, taken in summer while the cropwas on, and in the winter after the hiveswere packed. The photos might be of someuse to you to show to other backlotters (be-ginners) what an ordinary backlotter witha few colonies of bees will do in the way ofmaking money, and the other benefits he de-rives in the way of exercise and pleasure. I started this little plant just four sea-sons ago, by purchasing for $ two colo-nies of bees in old hives and transferring tonew lO-frame hives. Since then I have each 156 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE March,1922 FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE. Mr. Coolidges backlot apiary in summer. season added to it until I now have 20 colo-nies. When I started to buy bees I made upmy mind to buy cheap, for I was afraidthey would all fly away and leave me withthe bag to hold. I now have 20 good colo-nies in 10-frame hives, 50 large supers allfilled with good combs, one new Root-Cowanextractor, one 60-gallon and one 25-gallonhoney-tanks, one hot-water uncapping tank,queen-excluders, bee-escapes, knife, and allthe other necessary articles that go with thebusiness; also 10 winter cases, that are take-down and interchangeable, and can bepacked away in the summer. Now I dont care to set any value on thisoutfit, but what I want to show is that it isall profit. The bees are the owners, itstheirs, they made it. I keep an expense andreceipt account for them. The bees pro-duced honey that I sold for $; thecash paid out for the entire apiary and out-fit was $, making for me a profit of $ The apiary is
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