Gleanings in bee culture . difference. Ihave sometimes thought some beekeeperswere not altogether averse to seeing theinspector stung a little, as they seemed quiteamused at his misfortune. SOME ATTRACTIVE APIARIES. One very intelligent beekeeper had twoor three sheep in his bee-yard all kejit it looking like a lawn, and itseemed to me the best plan I have everknown for keeping down the grass, as thesheep were never in the way. Another bee-keei^er, Mr. W. A. Grover, of New , had an exceedingly attractive yard andhoney-house. His apiary numbers 100 colo-nies; and, besides,
Gleanings in bee culture . difference. Ihave sometimes thought some beekeeperswere not altogether averse to seeing theinspector stung a little, as they seemed quiteamused at his misfortune. SOME ATTRACTIVE APIARIES. One very intelligent beekeeper had twoor three sheep in his bee-yard all kejit it looking like a lawn, and itseemed to me the best plan I have everknown for keeping down the grass, as thesheep were never in the way. Another bee-keei^er, Mr. W. A. Grover, of New , had an exceedingly attractive yard andhoney-house. His apiary numbers 100 colo-nies; and, besides, he has a large farm;keeps about 15 cowsand 600 hens. I in-quired how many doz-en eggs his 600 hensproduced. He said hedid not know, but hehad sold $1300 worthof eggs in a year, andit cost him about onehalf for feed for hives his earlyswarms on old combsthat he has winteredover; and after a colo-ny has been queenlessfor seven or eightdays, or long enoughso that the brood is GLKANINGS IN BEE CULTURE KEBRUARY 1, 1913. FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTInN Top row. from left to right: G. W. Ve^^en B, A AldriC. J. S. Myers, A^;,Clancy .LC. Honahu., M7 R F«T>v W H Winch -T H. Schweer. Second row from top: J. C. VVriglit, ?, ^, ,L,io„| Eugene Seeor. S. W. Snyder. Frank C. Pellett, J. L. Strong, M. h. Dadani, all sealed, he puts a new swarm on thesecombs. Of eoui-se the (|ueen-fclls are de-stroyed. He says they rarely or neverswaim; and as brood is eonstantly hatch-infr, the new swarm is maintained at siilii-cient strength to store an abundance of sur-plus if any is to be , Vt. REPORT OF MEETING OF IOWA BEEKEEP-ERS ASSOCIATION BY F. C. SCRANTON The Towa Beekeepers Association heldits first annual session at Des Moines, and 1:5. Both the attendance and theinterest shown were very eneouragino-. Bee-keepeir- from all parts of the State attend-ed, and gave their experiences on the pro-duction and sale of honey. It was pleasing l
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