. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 98 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL M arcr tal. I had never yet been in Wash- ington, although I have visited nearly every State. So one may know that my day was well filled. In fact, 1 was tired out before the day ended. The night, I again took a sleeping-car (seven times in all dur- ing my trip) and the next moirning I was at Lynchburg, Va. DEMONSTRATION APIARIES IN IOWA By E. W. Atkins During the seasion of 1920 the Ex- tension Department of the Iowa State College, in co-operation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, out- lined a project entitled &q
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 98 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL M arcr tal. I had never yet been in Wash- ington, although I have visited nearly every State. So one may know that my day was well filled. In fact, 1 was tired out before the day ended. The night, I again took a sleeping-car (seven times in all dur- ing my trip) and the next moirning I was at Lynchburg, Va. DEMONSTRATION APIARIES IN IOWA By E. W. Atkins During the seasion of 1920 the Ex- tension Department of the Iowa State College, in co-operation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, out- lined a project entitled "Increased ; The object of this project was not to necesarily increase honey production by making more beekeep- ers, but rather to incease the crop by making the apiaries which already more productive by better methods of beekeeping. The project called for a series of demonstration meetings in a county to be conducted in five visits throughout the year in order to discuss the subject in hand just previous to the time of its appli- cation in the apiary. In carrying out this work the underlying principles of bee behavior were emphasized rather than methods. This gave rise to the feeling" that the work was largely theory, which sounds very nice, but fails to function in bringing in the dollars and cents. Such being the case, it was decided to apply the work by the specialist managing a number of colonies in different parts of the State, hence demonstration apiaries were established. Six were started last spring. Where possible, five colonies in each apiary were taken over by the specialist and the remainder of the colonies were maintained by the owners for the purpose of comparing the results with those obtained by the specialist. These were called check colonies. The first thing done where the bees were not in modern hives was to purchase two-story 10-frame Langstroth hives and four shallow extracting supers for each colony. These were fitted up with f
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