. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. The Jewell apiary at Mt. Hope spair of getting into the open. Doc- tor Rarrington is one of those genial, whole-souled beekeepers that it is a joy to meet. It is plain that nature intended him to be a beekeeper first. Raffington reports that his big fall yields are from heartsease, and Nin- inger has sometimes averaged as high as 50 pounds of comb honey from this source. They usually have about three weeks of flow from horsemint in early summer, with an average of about 35 pounds per col- ony of surplus. Alfalfa and sweet cl
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. The Jewell apiary at Mt. Hope spair of getting into the open. Doc- tor Rarrington is one of those genial, whole-souled beekeepers that it is a joy to meet. It is plain that nature intended him to be a beekeeper first. Raffington reports that his big fall yields are from heartsease, and Nin- inger has sometimes averaged as high as 50 pounds of comb honey from this source. They usually have about three weeks of flow from horsemint in early summer, with an average of about 35 pounds per col- ony of surplus. Alfalfa and sweet clover furnish the principal crop. Along the stream there is a variety of such trees as willows, which fur- nish early pollen and some nectar, as well as fall flowers which add to the total production. False indigo is a common shrub in the river bottom, and yields nectar freely in May. Mt. Hope is the Mecca of every Kansas beekeeper, for here it is that the popular president of the State Association, C. D. Mize, has his api- ary. The site is one of the most at- tractive for an apiary that the writer has ever seen. A grove shelters it from the wind from the north and west, while furnishing shade from the sun. The hives are set between the big Cottonwood trees that grow in a row along the edge of the grove. No photograph can do half justice to the beauty of the apiary. In addi- tion to one long row of hives facing south, there are several short rows facing east. Every hive and fixture is nicely painted, and everything is arranged as neatly as the utensils in the kitchen of a fastidious house- wife. Mr. E. W. Jewell, a local merchant, has an apiary equally neat, although arranged on a different plan. There is a friendly rivalry between the two men, which adds interest to their hobby. Not far from town was a big field of sweet clover which was humming with bees. Our little party greatly admired the luxuriant growth, and envied the two men whose bees were gathering the har- vest. At t
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