. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tuly 11, 1%1. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 445 ?was on tlie ocean beach hunlint; lurtle-ey:gs jesterday, and found a place that was l)adly mixed up with bear and tui'tle tracks, which showed a severe struggle had talven place. Following a trail leading back in the bushes for half a mile he found a 200-pound turtle partly eaten. He dressed the turtle and took the meat home, bringing me a generous mess of it. turtles come out on the ocean beach at this time of the year to lay their ?eggs, which are about as large as hen's eggs, l)ut not so good. They la
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Tuly 11, 1%1. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 445 ?was on tlie ocean beach hunlint; lurtle-ey:gs jesterday, and found a place that was l)adly mixed up with bear and tui'tle tracks, which showed a severe struggle had talven place. Following a trail leading back in the bushes for half a mile he found a 200-pound turtle partly eaten. He dressed the turtle and took the meat home, bringing me a generous mess of it. turtles come out on the ocean beach at this time of the year to lay their ?eggs, which are about as large as hen's eggs, l)ut not so good. They lay from 100 to aOO, and then go back into the ocean again. The turtles sometimes weigh 1000 pounds, but I never saw one that weighed more than 400 or 500 pounds. I was shot on Feb. 16, and have hardly got- ten my usual strength back again. I was in- tending to commence extracting to-day, but it has rained hard all day. H. T. Gifford. Brevard Co., June 11. Amount of Honey Stored in a Day. My bees came through the winter in rather poor condition, but they are doing well at present. I have two colonies of pure Italians that occupy three S-frame brood-chambers. I have Ijeen away to school, and did not get home in time to give my bees the attention they should have had. I have Ijeeu surprised to find how ignorant and afraid most people are of bees when come in contact with them, but how much they know about them if they never have had anything to do with them I My father became anxious to know how- much honey the bees stored in one day. so he made what he calls a pair of "; lie measured off one-half of a plank and rested the middle on the edge of a board. On one end he fastened a colony of bees that had been hived only a short time before, and on the other enti a rock that would just balance the weight of the hive and bees at dusk. He put on bricks as the hive grew heavier, claim- ing that as he weighed the bricks he could tell just how much honey was gat
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