. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PART 11-- .-Mi.'VM I 'S AITAKV. drones have been reduced to a mini- mum. Having a source of nectar from a varied flora, as fruit bloom, locust, willow, white clover, poplar, sumac, asters and autumn flowers, the bees never fail to produce a paying crop of comb and honey. Occa- sionally a box-hive beekeeper adopts modern methods and enters the class of progressives. Levi Gregory, of Webster Springs, West Virginia, af- ter reading considerable literature on the possibilities of apiculture de- decided that the day of the hollow log beekee
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PART 11-- .-Mi.'VM I 'S AITAKV. drones have been reduced to a mini- mum. Having a source of nectar from a varied flora, as fruit bloom, locust, willow, white clover, poplar, sumac, asters and autumn flowers, the bees never fail to produce a paying crop of comb and honey. Occa- sionally a box-hive beekeeper adopts modern methods and enters the class of progressives. Levi Gregory, of Webster Springs, West Virginia, af- ter reading considerable literature on the possibilities of apiculture de- decided that the day of the hollow log beekeeping had passed. Several modern ten-frame hives with com- plete equipment were purchased and immediately filled with bees. Some of his mountain neighbors declared he was a fair specimen for the asy- lum, while others watched his experi- ment with great interest. It re- quired only one year to convince his critics. A complete change of bee- keeping has taken place in his lo- cality. This past year he tried an- other experiment in the way of buy- ing pound packages in m'aking in-. '^ •'' *'^'' ^<3^20i^^V^-~»" ( ^&. ?•*'*-. 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 [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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