. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 262 August, 1916. American Hee Journal permit the grass to grow under his feet during the honey flow. The sur- prising feature is that he finds time to care for his hundred acre farm and to do a good business with a clover huller in the fall. He did not say so. but the writer has a notion that he keeps the huller as much for the con- venience of his neighbors who grow alsike clover for seed, as he does for the profit from the machine. Wi'h a large acreage of alsike grown for seed his chances of success are greatly in- creased. We were much pleased to
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 262 August, 1916. American Hee Journal permit the grass to grow under his feet during the honey flow. The sur- prising feature is that he finds time to care for his hundred acre farm and to do a good business with a clover huller in the fall. He did not say so. but the writer has a notion that he keeps the huller as much for the con- venience of his neighbors who grow alsike clover for seed, as he does for the profit from the machine. Wi'h a large acreage of alsike grown for seed his chances of success are greatly in- creased. We were much pleased to meet Matt Miklovitch, of Krain, Austria at the Hofman home. In his home country Mr. Miklovitch is connected with extensive apiaries operating colonies on the migratory plan. He is spending the summer with Mr. Hofman in order to become familiar with American methods, and to learn '.vhether some of our ways can be adopted with profit in his country. good stock is apparent. The cover picture of our July number gave a good idea of the appearance of one of the outapiaries. A corner of the home-apiary and the bee-cellar are shown herewith. At the time of our the honey flow was just beginning, and many of his colonies were three stories high, with the brood on jumbo frames. More and more of the extensive producers are being converted to the deep frame be- cause of the ease with which swarm- ing is controlled. There was prospect of an average of a hundred pounds to the colony, but you never can tell. We hope that Mr. Hofman will tell us later all about it. With pressing work at home call- ing, and other journeys to be taken shortly, the time spent with our Min- nesota friends was too short. When men place the business of honey pro- duction on so high a plane it makes one feel proud to be a POLICE CAPTAIM AND BEES BESIDE When beekeeping is carried on ex- tensively it becomes necessary to eliminate the non-essentials. Hof- man seems to be able to care for twice a
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