. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 314 September, 1914. American Vee Joornal. The Picture Would Not Be Complete Without Sage Directlly in Front of You do the work tliere. He says that he finds it much more economical to bring the honey home to extract, as he has to make the trips to the out-yard anyway. By using a power-driven ex- tractor and large tank he can do nearly all the necessary work alone, thus re- ducing expenses to the minium. The honey house is 30 feet square, with the lower story walls of concrete. The total cost of the building, exclusive of equipment, was about $1000. T
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 314 September, 1914. American Vee Joornal. The Picture Would Not Be Complete Without Sage Directlly in Front of You do the work tliere. He says that he finds it much more economical to bring the honey home to extract, as he has to make the trips to the out-yard anyway. By using a power-driven ex- tractor and large tank he can do nearly all the necessary work alone, thus re- ducing expenses to the minium. The honey house is 30 feet square, with the lower story walls of concrete. The total cost of the building, exclusive of equipment, was about $1000. There is abundant room for every operation, including storage for his hundreds of extracting supers during winter. A workroom, partitioned off in one cor- ner, can be easily heated and necessary work carried on comfortably in winter. 1912 was a fairly favorable season, and the Aldrich apiaries turned out about 27,000 pounds of honey from the 300 colonies in four yards. In 1913 some increase was made in the number of colonies, and the production jumped to over 40,000 pounds. From the 1913 crop the modern home shown in the picture was built, and it did not take it all either. The location is apparently above the average, being in the edge of the Mis- souri river hills. Some of the out- yards are in the hills and some in the bottoms, so that rarely a season fails to give a profitable crop in some of the yards. In case of a failure in one or the other it is not far to move the bees to pasturage. There is a considerable acreage of basswood surrounding the home yard from which a heavy yield is occasionally secured. Much of this timber is being cut, so that this will probably not be depended upon very much longer. Sweet clover in large acreage is within reach of one or two yards, and heartsease the main de- pendence on the bottoms. There is considerable similar terri- tory entirely unoccupied about 20 to 50 miles to the south of this location, and a few good locations near large towns
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