| Show ABOUT THE APIARY IT is estimated that to collect one pound of honey from clover heads of clover must deprived of nectar and visits irom bees must be made can detract more fro mour than to have our crop of comb honey bees get the swarming fever during the honey harvest unless it is having them so weak at the time that they are of little or no value THE largest amount of wild honey ever taken from one tree was reported from oregon recently A farmer took pounds from one cottonwood tree in which a huge swarm of bees had 1 stored up the annual accumulations for many years locating an apiary void the close proximity of laurel thickets as honey gathered from the laurel is corae if not really poisonous avoid the neighborhood of cider mills and do nofa locate immediately near a water as it will confine conr bee range to one direction exclusively prominence of the beekeeping bee keeping industry is not generally recognized from the fact that it is almost everywhere carried on as an incident of general agriculture every state and ter reports bees and more ey usually a hive or a few colonies for each farmer with occasionally an extensive apiary and large production ALWAYS is managing bees the apiarist should have an eye on the future as regards his honey harvest until the harvest arrives and when it arrives then bend his every energy for the time which is present for instance my honey harvest comes from basswood or during the last half of july so all my operations previous to this time must be this harvest or all m efforts will in failure i |
