. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Louis H. Scholl Scholls were expecting us. These young people had just been married, in 1906, when I met them first, and they look as young as they did then, though they now have a daughter 6 years old. Louis Scholl has as fine a collection of specimens of honey-plants as I have. LOUIS H. SCHOLL ADDRESSING BEXAR COUNTY FIELD MEET ever seen. A herbarium is difficult to preserve in good shape. We know this by experience, for we secured the Newman collection from Mr. Your some years ago, and we would be ashamed to exhibit it today. The Texas honey flora
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Louis H. Scholl Scholls were expecting us. These young people had just been married, in 1906, when I met them first, and they look as young as they did then, though they now have a daughter 6 years old. Louis Scholl has as fine a collection of specimens of honey-plants as I have. LOUIS H. SCHOLL ADDRESSING BEXAR COUNTY FIELD MEET ever seen. A herbarium is difficult to preserve in good shape. We know this by experience, for we secured the Newman collection from Mr. Your some years ago, and we would be ashamed to exhibit it today. The Texas honey flora is so extensive that a col- lection of most of its specimens is in- teresting and instructive. Scholl has at present between 1000 and 1200 colonies of bees. He has had a greater number of apiaries, but lost seven of them in the flood of the Brazos Valley in 191-3. All his colonies are in shallow stories, the brood-chamber be- ing of exactly the same size as the supers. Two or more stories are used for breeding and as many more as nec- essary for surplus. The crop is mainly buik comb-honey : as a rule only enough extracted honey being secured to fill the spaces between the joints of the combs when they are cut and fitted into the receptacles. This custom seems to be uniform all through southern Texas. Scholl's method of beekeeping is very simple, since all the stories are alike. He claims better results than with full- sized brood-chambers. The distance bees usually travel for honey is estimated by him at less than IK miles, and with apiaries two miles aijart he often notices a great difference in ihe yield, both as to quantitv and quality, indicating that the bees do not work on the same pasture. He has a few rare bee-books, two of which I had never seen, though I knew of them: "The True Amazons or the Monarchy of Bees," by Joseph Warder, London, 1726, and a translation of Huber's work of 1841. We visited with Mr. Scholl an apiary which depends solely upon cotton blos
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