. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Bloom Time Is Busy as Bee Time For Beekeeper You might call Horace Bell an air traffic lontroller and you wouldn't be far wrong. Actually, he's a migratory beekeeper and he lirects the flight of his winged minions from his :ontrol tower in Deland, Fla. Right now he's as msy as a bee himself. The Horace Bell Honey Company, you see, has ibout 30,000 hives. In each of those hives about )0,000 bees are buzzing. A goodly number of them vill be gathering nectar on cranberry bogs in klassachusetts and Wisconsin this month. So Horace, who'
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Bloom Time Is Busy as Bee Time For Beekeeper You might call Horace Bell an air traffic lontroller and you wouldn't be far wrong. Actually, he's a migratory beekeeper and he lirects the flight of his winged minions from his :ontrol tower in Deland, Fla. Right now he's as msy as a bee himself. The Horace Bell Honey Company, you see, has ibout 30,000 hives. In each of those hives about )0,000 bees are buzzing. A goodly number of them vill be gathering nectar on cranberry bogs in klassachusetts and Wisconsin this month. So Horace, who'd rather will be an outdoor man, vill be indoors, dispatching tractor trailers loaded vith hives for cranberry country. The bees will perform their role as pollinators for about a month ind then be moved out. "Everybody wants the bees all at once," says iorace. "Then, as fast as they wanted them in, hey want them out. Ten growers will call up at ?nce, saying they want the bees out tomorrow—or ; j Most growers take two hives per acre. The cost: 1)35 per hive. Do the bees get results? In fruit set and yield? )ver the years, Robert S. Filmer, Philip E. Marucci, VilKam E. Tomlinson Jr., Malcolm N. Dana, inderson, Eaton and other cranberry experts Lave attested that they do. Bell has another barometer of success. "The best testimonial," he says with a chuckle, is when they make those checks ; The 43-year-old Bell got started in beekeeping at he age of 4. "My grandfather gave me and my brother hives," le said. "And I've been at it ever ; Beekeeping today, however, is big business. Bell leclares. "Most of the smaller ones are going out of busi- less," he says. "Either you get to be more efficient r you don't ;. HORACE and Luella Bell don't get much of a chance to get dressed up in their Sunday best at this time of Please note that these images are extracted from scann
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