. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. j&,^s,:i£,^^Vi,js,Mi.:ie,M^iA^jL A Weekly Budget. )i Mr. Friedemann Greixer, of Ontario Co., N. writing us Dec. 2, 1901, said: '?We are having a hard winter-time. Our bees went into the cellar just in time. Our ounloor-wintered colonies are seen to—so we feel ;' The Apiaky of Mr. W. P. Turner is shown on the first page this week. When sending the photograph, Mr. Turner wrote as follows: I send a picture of my apiary located live miles northeast from the heart of a city, con- nected by electric street-car lines. The view is t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. j&,^s,:i£,^^Vi,js,Mi.:ie,M^iA^jL A Weekly Budget. )i Mr. Friedemann Greixer, of Ontario Co., N. writing us Dec. 2, 1901, said: '?We are having a hard winter-time. Our bees went into the cellar just in time. Our ounloor-wintered colonies are seen to—so we feel ;' The Apiaky of Mr. W. P. Turner is shown on the first page this week. When sending the photograph, Mr. Turner wrote as follows: I send a picture of my apiary located live miles northeast from the heart of a city, con- nected by electric street-car lines. The view is taken from the car-line looking northwest. The hives are fronting south, and are all pat- terns, but the frames are of the Langstroth type, and will fit in any of the hives. Your humble servant stands in the fore- ground, is 57 years old, and has kept bees more or less the past 2S years in connection with farming. But in March, 1900, he aban- doned the farm and came to this resort, and built the house on the extreme left, as partly shown in the picture. The good wife and oldest daughter are seen standing in front of the same. (Our other daughter happened to be away when the artist called to take the picture.) Our only son, Chas. L., and his family, are seen in the automobile coming down tlie street from the west. He and his cousin, F. I. Ellis, are the inventors and builders of said wagon. One or the other, or both of them, use it every day. They prom- ised me an auto-delivery wagon at a future date. Their residences are shown at the ex- treme right—first is Charles' and next is Ellis'. The carpenter shop and honey-house are south—just outside of the picture, by, or near, the solar wax-extractor shown; also about 15 more colonies of bees are located between my shop and the barn. The hives, 55 in all, stand 12 feet apart each way. I hope to have, by the end of another year, the little lot filled up, two in a place. The past has not been a very good year for honey, although
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