. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. r)e Jiee-J^^^peps' jHc^^i'c^- A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. VOL. XX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, NOV. 15, 1907. NO. 11 The Modest Beginning" of a Prosper- ous Business. ELIAS E. COVEYOU. ^OTHE modest home shown upon the op- ^ posite page is the fruit of a beginning in bee-keeping that was still more modest. As they say in stories, "once upon a time," one hot day in July, as my s c hoolmates and myself were sitting on a grassy bank back of the old school house, eatin
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. r)e Jiee-J^^^peps' jHc^^i'c^- A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. VOL. XX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, NOV. 15, 1907. NO. 11 The Modest Beginning" of a Prosper- ous Business. ELIAS E. COVEYOU. ^OTHE modest home shown upon the op- ^ posite page is the fruit of a beginning in bee-keeping that was still more modest. As they say in stories, "once upon a time," one hot day in July, as my s c hoolmates and myself were sitting on a grassy bank back of the old school house, eating our dinners, one of t h e boys took out of his pail a piece of honey that he had for his dinner. How nice, and white, it did look ! I was of too independent a nature to ask him for a taste of it, but it did set my mind to wondering how the little bees could make. anything so sweet and delicious looking. Henceforth, there v/is ^n added enjoy- ment in listening to the hum of the bees, and watching them as fitted from flower to flower in my father's clover or buckwheat fields. One day in June, in 1893, as father and we boys stood looking at the bees at work on one of our fields of alsike, we decided to visit the nearest bee-keeper, about four miles away, and try and get a colony of bees. Father and my eldest brother arrived at home with them late in the evening, and placed them upon the stand that I had prepared. 1 was up early the next morning to see them start out and return loaded, and, about nine o'clock, armed with an old Clark smoker that was secured with the bees, I went forth, feeling much like a soldier going in- to battle, but determined to be master of the situation. This colony was increased to four, and 12 more were bought in August, all of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original N
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