. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A BRANCH OF ACACIA BLOOM (Photograph by John R. Douglass). on the height of the fence. I watched the effect from the tail of my eye. He was growing visibly calmer. The prospect of a half-payment on a fence that would leave the strawber- ry patch on my side of it, had worked the magic. His wife, too, was deeply impressed. She presented me with a jar of strawberry pre- serves, casually remarking that fences, particularly high board fences, were out of date and no longer used in connection with mod- ern homes. Early next morning I was awak- ened by a sha
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A BRANCH OF ACACIA BLOOM (Photograph by John R. Douglass). on the height of the fence. I watched the effect from the tail of my eye. He was growing visibly calmer. The prospect of a half-payment on a fence that would leave the strawber- ry patch on my side of it, had worked the magic. His wife, too, was deeply impressed. She presented me with a jar of strawberry pre- serves, casually remarking that fences, particularly high board fences, were out of date and no longer used in connection with mod- ern homes. Early next morning I was awak- ened by a sharp metallic sound. "The milkman," I murmured, and turned over for another snooze. Again the sound came—a stealthy, scraping sound. I stole to the win- dow. In the half-light I perceived a dim form that now and then cast furtive glances in the direction of our hives. It was my neighbor. He was hoeing the unfinished rows of si ra wherries. Bees in Combless Packages By the Editor THE irregular results in crops ted from packages of In i s by the pound, received from the South, when they have ar- rived in good order and have been hived on empty combs, are mainly dependent upon the time at which thej are received, when com- pai ''I in the honey flow. The results obtained in honey by the purchase of such small swarms as one pound o unds of bees. often do n< it come from thesi bi ; , but from the great increase in hive force secured from the queens themselves, by active egg laying. Whether we rear bees at home for the honey crop, or whether we order them from far away, we must bear in mind that it takes 21 days to hatch a worker from the egg, and that it usually takes about 14 days more before that worker becomes an active field bee. So the actual amount of time necessary between the laying of the egg by the queen and the harvesting of honey by the bee produced from that egg, is 35 days. Let us suppose that our honey crop is usually due to begin on June 10. Then the firs
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