. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fargo when I arrived there in com- pany with Mr. and Mrs. Wilder, who were going home to Cordele and con- tinued on the way. Bradley was go- ing to an apiary 20 miles north, where he had left his automobile, so I got on the train again and we stopped at Thelma. The apiary was in sight of the station, right in the middle of the woods. Imagine a flat country of very straight, slim pines, from which all the large trees have been removed, leaving only the stumps and a thick growth of un- derbrush composed of saw palmetto, seven or eight different kinds of
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fargo when I arrived there in com- pany with Mr. and Mrs. Wilder, who were going home to Cordele and con- tinued on the way. Bradley was go- ing to an apiary 20 miles north, where he had left his automobile, so I got on the train again and we stopped at Thelma. The apiary was in sight of the station, right in the middle of the woods. Imagine a flat country of very straight, slim pines, from which all the large trees have been removed, leaving only the stumps and a thick growth of un- derbrush composed of saw palmetto, seven or eight different kinds of huckleberry brush, a large amount of gallberry brush (ilex globra"), and an occasional cypress swamp with shallow water where different water bushes grow, among which the tupelo gum, nyssa capitata or ogeechee lime, furnishes abundance of honey- producing flowers in April and May. There, near an apiary of some 80 colonies, two men were working, pre- paring supers and frames for the harvest. The bee-house, measuring about 20x36 feet, was full of extract- ing half-story supers, with empty combs in them, and a large lot of barrels which had very evidently contained honey the previous year. It was a business-looking mi ii- and slenile riiic^ in Southern Georgia \piu> at Fruitland, ik. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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