. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^^•(f-f)-(f-(f-(f-(f-(f-(f-(f'(f-(f-(f-(l)-(f-(f-(f-(f^^ 39th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER 21, 1899, No, 38,. Mr. F. L. Murray and His Apiary. I began bee-keeping in the spring of 1892, with four colonies in S-frame Langstroth portico hives. I was work- ing for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Com- pany as a telegraph operator and station agent the fall of 1891. A Mr. Reed (from whom I bought the bees) got me interested in the subject, and I agreed to buy four colonies from him in the spring, and work up. So in the spring of 1892 I quit
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^^•(f-f)-(f-(f-(f-(f-(f-(f-(f'(f-(f-(f-(l)-(f-(f-(f-(f^^ 39th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER 21, 1899, No, 38,. Mr. F. L. Murray and His Apiary. I began bee-keeping in the spring of 1892, with four colonies in S-frame Langstroth portico hives. I was work- ing for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Com- pany as a telegraph operator and station agent the fall of 1891. A Mr. Reed (from whom I bought the bees) got me interested in the subject, and I agreed to buy four colonies from him in the spring, and work up. So in the spring of 1892 I quit the railroad and went home to learn the art and mysteries of bee-keeping. I increast the four colonies to 12, and had 200 pounds of nice honey in pound sections for my experience that sea- son. I have been working with the bees more or less ever since. In the spring of 1892 I also began raising fanC3' poul- try, and find it works very nicely with bee-keeping, for I do not agree with Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, who says, "Carry all the eggs in one basket, and carry them no carefully they will not ; I would prefer to have mine in more than one, so if one basket gets tipt over I will still have some left, for the best of us is likely to get tript up some time. I have now 160 colonies in two j'ards. My sister (Mrs. "White) and son Lynn, aged 13, are also greatly interested in bee-keeping, and give me what help is needed, for, like "Rambler," I am living in single blessedness. The illustration herewith shows part of my home yard, which is run for comb honey ; the out-yard is run for extracted honey. I use the 8- frame dovetailed hive in both yards. In the out-yard I use three hive- bodies, with a queen-excluder be- tween the second and third bodies, and do all my extracting from the Uiird story. With this method I do not have any swarming to speak of, and do not visit the out-yard except to extract, or do any other necessary work with bees. The home yard i
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