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Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
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s of theoriginal queens all gentle one year, all uglyforever after. Does some one say bad handling? Well,I handled the original yard and helped onthe others, and I am no spring chicken inthe bee business. Bees are contrary—ah! Mr. Crane objectsto my saying little cusses (a cuss equals a customer ), so I will use an oldNew England phrase and say that they are contrary little critters. Providence, R. I. FROM FOUR TO ONE HUNDRED COLONIES BY CURD WALKER Seventeen years ago, about one yearbefore I ever saw Gleanings, I bought myfirst bees. They were in a box hive nearlythree feet long, and split open on one side.It contained a good colony of black bees.hoAvever. and later on that same spring Tbouglit three moie colonies, one in a round gum and two in home-made patent traps invery bad condition. That year I got twoswarms, but the moths killed one of themI)efore winter. The next year I began to get acquaintedwith Mr. C. H. W. Weber, of Cincinnati,who sent me my first queen-bee of the Ital-
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.2 FEBRUARY 15, 1916 149 ian stock. I lost this one, but soon gotanother and succeeded with it, then I gotstarted with an outfit of five hives from Mr.J. M. Jenkins, of Wetumpka, Ala., whichI got for about $6.00 for the five eight-frame hives. They never gave me satisfac-tion, I made a few hives that were worsestill, so I tried the Danzenbaker, a few atfirst, and liked them well for the produc-tion of honey, either comb or extracted, asI could use the body and one suiDer for thequeen to occupy. But for the last few yearsI have bought nothing but the ten-frameLangstroth, as it is the Ideal hive for mywork in handling frames. 1 have now 100 colonies of fine Italian bees in up-to-datehives with 200 queen nuclei. I did over$1100 worth of business in 1914, with aclear jDrofit of over $700. We have seven girls and two boys in ourfamily. We are all big honey-eaters, andwe have not had to have a doctor in fifteenyears. We often eat nearly 60 lbs. of honeyin a month when we dont have molasses.

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