. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 3^1|^ '^et '^ttT^txs' 3^^tJkto*. Established in 1888 by the late W. Z. Hutchinson OFFICIAL ORGANOFTHE NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS E. D. TOWNSEND, Managing Editor, Northstar, Michigan ASSOCIATE EDITORS WESLEY FOSTER, Boulder, Colo. PBOF. EDWIN G. BALDWIN, Deland, Fla. Entered as second-class matter December 9 1913, at the postoffice at North Star, Michigan, under the act of March 3, 1879. TERMS—$ a year to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Cuba. Mexico. Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, and
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 3^1|^ '^et '^ttT^txs' 3^^tJkto*. Established in 1888 by the late W. Z. Hutchinson OFFICIAL ORGANOFTHE NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION AND ITS AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS E. D. TOWNSEND, Managing Editor, Northstar, Michigan ASSOCIATE EDITORS WESLEY FOSTER, Boulder, Colo. PBOF. EDWIN G. BALDWIN, Deland, Fla. Entered as second-class matter December 9 1913, at the postoffice at North Star, Michigan, under the act of March 3, 1879. TERMS—$ a year to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Cuba. Mexico. Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, and Shanghai, China. To all other countries the rate is $ DISCONTINUANCES—Unless a request is received to the contrary, the subscription will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. At the time a subscription expires a notice will be sent, and a subscriber wish- ing the subscription continued who will renew later should send a request to that effect. Advertising rates on application. Forms close 20th of each month. VOL. XXVII NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN, DECEMBER 1, 1914 No. 12 Management of Three Thousand Colonies Bees in Fifty Yards By J. J. WILDER, Cordele, Ga. The Third Year's Work in the New Field- Near the close of tlie second year work in the new field I bought some land and a cottage at O'Brien, Florida which was then headquarters in the new field and decided to spend the winters there and work at the new business. Well I did spend the most of the following winter there and give the business another good shelve off by fixing up more supplies for increase and locatina: more apiary sites. At the close of the second season I had some surplus cash after all returns had come in and early in the spring of the third year I bought 200 colonies bees in three yards down the railroad from mine about ten miles, and there I estab- lished another branch of business and there I began to widen out, establishing apiaries around. I car- ried nearly 100 colonies bees from my
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