. Gleanings in bee culture . what mannerof thing a brood-chamber might be, or aripe cell, or a shook swarm, or a queen-excluder. Like Sanskrit sounded suchphrases as laying workers, foul brood, royaljelly, failing queen. But she read on—itwas what she had spent her quarter at last, just as winter was leaving theearth, the man remembered having onceknown, long ago, a man who had talkedabout bees and died. So he looked up the dead beekeepers family and found a four-teen-year-old son who would sell him a hiveof bees for $ Thus he became a side-line beekeeper. To such good purpose had
. Gleanings in bee culture . what mannerof thing a brood-chamber might be, or aripe cell, or a shook swarm, or a queen-excluder. Like Sanskrit sounded suchphrases as laying workers, foul brood, royaljelly, failing queen. But she read on—itwas what she had spent her quarter at last, just as winter was leaving theearth, the man remembered having onceknown, long ago, a man who had talkedabout bees and died. So he looked up the dead beekeepers family and found a four-teen-year-old son who would sell him a hiveof bees for $ Thus he became a side-line beekeeper. To such good purpose had Friend Wiferead Gleanings all winter that on first open-ing this hive, the first one that either ofthem had ever seen the inside of, theyfound their queen; and the lady clippedher. Soon two of them were reading. Thatsummer they had a swarm—100% after year they increased a little. Andwhen they had reached the noble proportionof 50 hives, they made a division. Theseshall be yours and these mine, thev said to. The bees in the kesr stored about 75 pounds of honey. But the tall one was the banner hive,one another. The man, however, workedin an ofdce all day. So he took the smallerhalf. These he works on Saturday after-noons, weather permitting, or Sundaymornings. One of liis interesting experiences waswhen, against the advice of Friend Wife,he bought a colony of bees from a negroman. They were in a kaig, and hebrought them to the yard one night, in asack. Then closed the entrance by tackinga piece of roofing tight across it. He fittedan old bottom-board over the top and setthereon a shallow super. Then another—and another. The bees stored 75 pounds ofbeautiful wliite honey in his supers. Buthe did not succeed in getting his shy, elus-ive queen to occupy them, as he, had plan-ned. So one briglit day in midsummer, withhis permission and several assistants, FriendWife transferred them for him in strictlyorthodox style. His bee work means much to him, saysMr. Allen.
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