. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^"^#4)-i)-^-(i-(i-4-d-<i-^-A-(i»##i)-(i-i)'#(i-#i)-(i)'(i'^^ • m aEOROE w. YORK, Editor. ^ si ^4^ WH^ i^MpiSte' ^r' d mm grr-TYl «i est ^"Y*!** if^ipip »f ffiifii|.I. ^(f-<f-f)-f)«(f-f)"(f-f)«(|)-f)«f)'f)-f)-f)-(f-f)'(f'^-^^ 40th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, FEBRUARY 1, 1900, No, Apiary of Mr. Tofield Lehman. BY THE EDITOR. THE picture shown herewith is a part of the home apiary of 46 colonies, belonging to Tofield L,ehman, of Fay- ette Co., Iowa. The crop of honey in 1899 from them was 2,000 pounds, which, he says, was a poor year. In
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^"^#4)-i)-^-(i-(i-4-d-<i-^-A-(i»##i)-(i-i)'#(i-#i)-(i)'(i'^^ • m aEOROE w. YORK, Editor. ^ si ^4^ WH^ i^MpiSte' ^r' d mm grr-TYl «i est ^"Y*!** if^ipip »f ffiifii|.I. ^(f-<f-f)-f)«(f-f)"(f-f)«(|)-f)«f)'f)-f)-f)-(f-f)'(f'^-^^ 40th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, FEBRUARY 1, 1900, No, Apiary of Mr. Tofield Lehman. BY THE EDITOR. THE picture shown herewith is a part of the home apiary of 46 colonies, belonging to Tofield L,ehman, of Fay- ette Co., Iowa. The crop of honey in 1899 from them was 2,000 pounds, which, he says, was a poor year. In the picture Mr. Lehman is standing by the side of the honey-extractor, and the girl in front of the extracting- house is his 14-year-old sister. The hives in the apiary are 6 feet apart in the rows, and the rows 16 feet apart. He has kept bees for 7 years, and has been successful with them all that time. One of his neighbors askt him how much honey a good colony of bees could store in one day during a good honey-flow. Mr. L. told him that some of his best colonies stored in one day 14 pounds each, during the basswood flow the past season. He could hardly believe it. Mr. L. weighed the colonies early in the morning before any of the bees left the hive, and then weighed them again in the evening when all had stopt flying. Some of the best colonies were then 14 pounds heavier than in the morning. In 1896 Mr. Lehman sold $ worth of fine honey from a single colony. It produced 150 pounds which brought IS cents per pound that year. We have had some of the extracted honey produced by Mr. Lehman, and it was some of the finest we have ever seen—very thick in body, and of a rich flavor. If all who produce extracted honey would be as careful to put out as well-ripened an article, there would be less complaint against honey in the extracted form. Last fall we purchast fifteen or twenty barrels of honey from Wisconsin, and lately we have had to reliquefy it, and transfer to
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