. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. F. J. R. Davenport.' sides. In the 'SO's he owned and superintended three api- aries, consisting of more than 1,000 colonies. In 1883 he extracted 22,000 pounds of honey, and, by the way, he in- vented his own extracting machine, which answers every pur- pose that the patent extractors do. From the above it Is natural to suppose that the son in- herited his enthusiasm for bees from his father. In December, 1873, F. J. R. Davenport was married to Miss Josie Austin, daughter of Rev. James F. and Crinna Austin, of Cool Springs, Ky. In October, 1875, he m
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. F. J. R. Davenport.' sides. In the 'SO's he owned and superintended three api- aries, consisting of more than 1,000 colonies. In 1883 he extracted 22,000 pounds of honey, and, by the way, he in- vented his own extracting machine, which answers every pur- pose that the patent extractors do. From the above it Is natural to suppose that the son in- herited his enthusiasm for bees from his father. In December, 1873, F. J. R. Davenport was married to Miss Josie Austin, daughter of Rev. James F. and Crinna Austin, of Cool Springs, Ky. In October, 1875, he moved with his family to Texas, and for 18 years has resided in Ellis county. His education is limited, and he states that while his advantages for an education were not very good, he was nevertheless favored with better opportunities than he im- proved. From childhood, as before stated, he admired bees, but his limited finances forbade him making any attempt at the business until 1886, when he purchast two colonies. For four years he accommodated himself with nail-kegs and rude boxes of his own construction, and such other things as were inexpensive and possibly convenient. In 1890 he secured his first patent hives, and from that time dates his bee-keeping on modern methods. He bought books, subscribed for bee- journals, and, as fortune favored him, he soon had all of his bees transferred to frame hives, and has been improving them ever since by introducing good queens of different varieties, principally Italians, Cyprians and Holy Lands. He has studied the nature and workings of bees, and, together with his ex- perience, has acquired quite an eSicient knowledge of them. He has acquired the art of queen-rearing, and in fact can do almost anything with them that any one else can. He mani- fests great interest in the bee-keepers' associations, and at- tends the conventions when possibly convenient. His apiary, consisting of 176 colonies, is in a shady hackberry grove, and present
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