. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 4, 1900. AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL. 629 Contributed Articlesa | A Wisconsin and His Apiaries. I SEND herewith a view of a part of my Monroe apiary, and also one of the larffer yard at Browntown, the next station on the railroad 8 miles west. In reference to ray bee-keeping-, I will say I became interested in bees while working- for the railroad company as agent at Prairie du Sac, Wis., about 18 years ago. It was from the veteran bee-keeper, J. J. Ochsner, that I purchast my first colony of bees. Like the Ochsners, my business has been prin
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Oct. 4, 1900. AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL. 629 Contributed Articlesa | A Wisconsin and His Apiaries. I SEND herewith a view of a part of my Monroe apiary, and also one of the larffer yard at Browntown, the next station on the railroad 8 miles west. In reference to ray bee-keeping-, I will say I became interested in bees while working- for the railroad company as agent at Prairie du Sac, Wis., about 18 years ago. It was from the veteran bee-keeper, J. J. Ochsner, that I purchast my first colony of bees. Like the Ochsners, my business has been principally the production of comb honey, but always producing more or less extracted along with it. Soon after making my beginning in bee-keeping, we removed to Browntown, Green Co. There were only a few colonies of bees on the field, all of which I purchast, as the owners took but little interest in them. But after several years had elapst, and I had succeeded in building up a good paying apiary, then a number of people on the field discov- ered that beekeeping was just the business they wanted, and, as a result, I have had to contend with an overstockt locality; but I have this much to claim, I never started an apiary on another's field, and don't think I ever will. It is unnecessary. If I can't buy out the occupant, there are un- occupied fields. After pursuing the business at Browntown for 12 years, I purchast a block of land in the residence portion of the county seat of Green county, on which I built a family res- idence. I bought out the only apiary then in the city, one that had been establisht for 25 years, thus making this my headquarters. We have at this time something over 200 colonies, the greater part of which are at Browntown. We use the 8 frame dovetailed and the 8-frame Grimm-Lang- stroth hives, and practice tiering up for extracted honey, and the Heddon method of hiving swarms. All queens are dipt at the beginning of each season. Our percentage of colonies workt
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