Gleanings in bee culture . Tuckefs>piary, showing the detail of the high benches. Gleaningi in Bee Culture. 1 lie handy board sifh w alks between the hives. try that furnishes, I might say, shiploads ofhoney, much of which is now going to waste. Again we board the launch. As we go tuppy, tuppy down the stream we findother bee-keepers located a good deal likethose already shown. For example, Mr. Tucker, at Bluffston, has between 250and 300 colonies. As we hasten down toward Appalachicolawe make no more stops. But I said to my-self, If it were not for malaria and mos-quitoes, this would
Gleanings in bee culture . Tuckefs>piary, showing the detail of the high benches. Gleaningi in Bee Culture. 1 lie handy board sifh w alks between the hives. try that furnishes, I might say, shiploads ofhoney, much of which is now going to waste. Again we board the launch. As we go tuppy, tuppy down the stream we findother bee-keepers located a good deal likethose already shown. For example, Mr. Tucker, at Bluffston, has between 250and 300 colonies. As we hasten down toward Appalachicolawe make no more stops. But I said to my-self, If it were not for malaria and mos-quitoes, this would be the greatest bee-keepers paradise I ever struck in all theUnited States, and I have now travelednearly every foot of territory where bees areknown to thrive. I doubt if this countrywill ever be overstocked. Our friend Mr. A. B. Marchant, at Mar-chants Landing, must be better locatedthan most of the bee-keepers on the is on comparatively high ground, ongood land where he can do any thing elsehe pleases. Unfortunately our friend hassuffered severely from two fires, losing hishome in both cases,
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