The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . esidence than the place of birth—Cherry Valley,N. Y. His bee-keeping career commenced at theearly age of twelve years, when, with ? earnedfor that special purpose, he bought a colony of bees,and at seventeen had marketed honey by the ton,averaging nearly 60 lbs. per colony, and this was se-cured in glass bo
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . esidence than the place of birth—Cherry Valley,N. Y. His bee-keeping career commenced at theearly age of twelve years, when, with ? earnedfor that special purpose, he bought a colony of bees,and at seventeen had marketed honey by the ton,averaging nearly 60 lbs. per colony, and this was se-cured in glass , although box hives and thebrimstone-pit were then in vogue. .?Vt this sametime, in , he invented a double-walled hive, withconfined air-space between walls, applying for al)atent on it; but after using tw<i or three humlredof them he had the unusual good sense to discardhis own invention wlien he found it did not come upto his expectations. He then used very successfully a straw hive, having at one time 12<X) of themWith these hives he devised a system of artificial increase, not requiring the use of movalile combs,ttnd 328 BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTED BEE KEEPERS. ?was sopassed successful therewitli that whole apiariesthroujrh tlic season without a sing-le CAPT. HETHERINGTOX DLItlXG WAR TIMES. In 1861, at his countrys call lie took up the life ofa soldier, abandoning what was tlien the most ex-tensive bee-business in the country. He enlisted asa private in Company D, 1st Regiment U. S. Sharp-shooters, and advanced to the position of record shows tliat tlie position was fairly andhonorably earned by his bravei-y. Three times hewas wounded, and in 18t)4 was dischar{?ed from ser-vice on account of disability from his wounds. Hisarmy life broke down his health so completely that,for two years, the question of his life was one ofgreat uncertainty. However, he took up bee-keep-ing with his old-time zest. Wide awake to the mat-ter of improvements, alway
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