. Gleanings in bee culture . nt of power. A single heavy dutytwo horsepower electric motor furnishedample power to run the extractors and thepump; there is some advantage in the ar-rangement, as one extractor acts like a flywheel and aids in starting the other, bothnever being started at the same time. Meridian, Idaho. E. F. Atwater. PAY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE How Two Boys Earned Enough to go to Collegefrom One Small Apiary Six years ago my older son graduatedfrom high school and had a great desire togo to college. We had 23 colonies in theback yard. They gathered a ton of honey, which wo sold an
. Gleanings in bee culture . nt of power. A single heavy dutytwo horsepower electric motor furnishedample power to run the extractors and thepump; there is some advantage in the ar-rangement, as one extractor acts like a flywheel and aids in starting the other, bothnever being started at the same time. Meridian, Idaho. E. F. Atwater. PAY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE How Two Boys Earned Enough to go to Collegefrom One Small Apiary Six years ago my older son graduatedfrom high school and had a great desire togo to college. We had 23 colonies in theback yard. They gathered a ton of honey, which wo sold and sent the boy to Hanover(Jollege, paying his expenses and $40 over. The following spring we had 24 colonies,which gathered about a ton of comb honey,and this, with the $40 from the previousyear, paid the boys way the second year. The boy taught in the high school in thecollege building the next year, and themoney from the bees purchased a Ford car. For four years in succession the beesfrom 23, 24, 35 and 41 hives gathered a. D. F. Rankin and his sons. Tliase two boys are paying their way through college from the jji-otits from the bees. ton of honey, which paid more than his ex-penses for four years at collage. He and his younger brother, who is nowa junior in Hanover College, have now alove for the blessed bees and know how tomanage them profitably. The older boy came home from college atAveek ends last spring and managed thebees so that not one of the 40 coloniesswarmed. On June 10 the second boy camehome and reared queens in artificial cellsand requeened most of the colonies. Ourincrease was 25 colonies, and the crop abouta ton of honey. D. F. Eankin. Hnnever, Mass. [The new president of the PennsylvaniaState College is another good example ofthe boy who earned his way through collegeby producing honey. He was a native ofEssex County, X. Y., living on the westside of Lake Champlain, almost opposite thehome of J. E. Crane, with whom he oftenconsulted as a boy.—Editor.] 584
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