Gleanings in bee culture . Campanilla blossoms andbees get from them. a sample of what the PHOTOGRAHIC POST CARDS TO SELL HONEY BY GEORGE H. ELSKAMP Last year I took off 3000 sections andabout 1000 lbs. extracted honey from twentycolonies, spring count. My queens are Practically every colony also had a supernot , Copy of one of the illustrated post cards that George H. Elskamp, of Maurice, la., uses to help sell his crop. nearly all leather-colored Italians, but quitea number are mismated. One colony had its12 supers in all; another colony that waspreparing to swarm I di
Gleanings in bee culture . Campanilla blossoms andbees get from them. a sample of what the PHOTOGRAHIC POST CARDS TO SELL HONEY BY GEORGE H. ELSKAMP Last year I took off 3000 sections andabout 1000 lbs. extracted honey from twentycolonies, spring count. My queens are Practically every colony also had a supernot , Copy of one of the illustrated post cards that George H. Elskamp, of Maurice, la., uses to help sell his crop. nearly all leather-colored Italians, but quitea number are mismated. One colony had its12 supers in all; another colony that waspreparing to swarm I divided, and it had 18supers and one hive-body between them. [Mr. Elskamp uses post-card views of hisapiary, bees, etc., with appropriate inscrip-tions for helping sell his honey. The 4000lbs., mostly comb honey, from 20 colonies,spring count, is not a bad record!—Ed.] AN EXHIBIT THAT PAID BY M. H. HILL I have been a beekeeper for 20 years, andthere is no branch of the business that Itake more pleasure or pride in than themarketing of a crop of honey, coming inpersonal touch with customers, either retail-ers or consumers. At the present time I have charge of oilproperty and beekeeping is a side line. Inthis I have been handicapped in meetingcustomers and having a chance to talk hon-ey. The opportunity presented itself lastfall,
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