. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. cccssful given up the light and have been con- tent tn live mi charity. Not so, how- ever, in this ease ; the loss of his legs gave him the impetus necessary to make life successful, and while be- fore the accident Mr. Nicholls' ambi- tions were small, he soon realized that life was ahead and that he had to make good. In 1915 he secured a swarm of bees and, although he secured no honey that year, the bees were carefully prepared and packed outside for winter. Early in the 1916 season a good book on beekeeping was pur- chased and this book was studied
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. cccssful given up the light and have been con- tent tn live mi charity. Not so, how- ever, in this ease ; the loss of his legs gave him the impetus necessary to make life successful, and while be- fore the accident Mr. Nicholls' ambi- tions were small, he soon realized that life was ahead and that he had to make good. In 1915 he secured a swarm of bees and, although he secured no honey that year, the bees were carefully prepared and packed outside for winter. Early in the 1916 season a good book on beekeeping was pur- chased and this book was studied in conjunction with the manipulation of the colony. Frequent visits were also made to successful commercial beekeepers living in the vicinity, and much information was freely given from this source. At the close of the season Mr. Nicholls had 80 pounds of honey sur- plus and had wisely refrained from making increase. Slow but sure. The single colony was again packed and wintered well. Nineteen seventeen opened and three more colonies were purchased and transferred from their old hives into standard 10-frame hives. Two 2-pound packages of bees were secured from the south and two other colonies were worked on half shares. During the season Mr. Nich- olls worked for the Western Honey Producers, assembling beekeeping supplies and worked with the bees at odd times. The close of that sea- son found our friend with twelve 11 ill mies ami a crop i if 400 pounds of honey. The twelve colonies were wintered successfully. The twelve colonies, together with i wo iin ii e purchased, were m >\ ed five miles from town in the spring of 1918. '.i uli - t he afot emenl ii med fourteen colonies, forty-five more were worked mi shares, for half of the surplus !i< iiuv only. Work at the suppb fat tory was discontinued, except at odd times, and the bees received the re- quired attention. A second-hand ford was purchased, on time, and the and town madi hie. I he fi m it i rii colonies w ere in- e
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