. Gleanings in bee culture . yyields should not come back to the old fig-ures once more. Before the freeze of 1894, ]Mr. O. <). Pop-])leton and Mr. E. M. Stover kept bees three-fourths of the year at the fork of the River, north of Stuart, Fla., and thenwould migrate 150 miles to the vicinity ofHawks Park for the mangrove. They se-cured excellent results, says Mr. Poj) 1895, the migrating practice has be-come a habit with Mr. Poppleton, and hehas continued to migrate, but in an ojipo-site direction. He no longer went northbut south from the St. lAicie to the largekeys o
. Gleanings in bee culture . yyields should not come back to the old fig-ures once more. Before the freeze of 1894, ]Mr. O. <). Pop-])leton and Mr. E. M. Stover kept bees three-fourths of the year at the fork of the River, north of Stuart, Fla., and thenwould migrate 150 miles to the vicinity ofHawks Park for the mangrove. They se-cured excellent results, says Mr. Poj) 1895, the migrating practice has be-come a habit with Mr. Poppleton, and hehas continued to migrate, but in an ojipo-site direction. He no longer went northbut south from the St. lAicie to the largekeys of the southeast coast of the still mo\es his bees over this route everyspring. More of this later. Bee-men stillsigh for the olden golden glory of themangrove days. It is probable that trelddng, to use aBoer term, has had its day. Henceforththe out-apiary system will supplant migrat-ing in great part, if not entirely, unless con-ditions assume exactly the phase exhibitedbetween the years 188(5 and 1895. That the. Metcalfes way of carrying supers of empty combs to the hives after EXTRACTING. out-apiary has come, and come with a ven-geance, is sliown by wliat )e Laud, Fla. To be continued. RETURNING EMPTY COMBS TO THE HIVE. Robbing Liable to be Started if the Work is NotRapidly Done. BY O. B. METCALFE. In putting empty combs back on thehives, more robbing is started than in anyother way. With a big outfit like oursframes must be put back when there is nohoney coming in; and it is not always han-dy to wait until evening, hence the necessi-ty of a system that is quick. We use a wheelbarrow to bring the honeyin, and we formerU- used one to take back the empty frames in the supers; but wehave found that one man can carry fromfour to six supers, and do it much morequickly than a load of about the same num-ber can be taken on the wheelbarrow. Weused also to take the supers of emptyframes back by the buggy-load, but foundthat this method started too much robbi
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