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Show I OVER FIFTEEN TONS OF HONEY EXTRACTED HERE Is Result of Placing Six Car-Loads Car-Loads of Bees in Alfalfa Fields of This County X Scarcely noticed by Milford people peo-ple has been the honey extracting plant of Patton and Langford, located in the galvanized-iron building to the the east of the tracks. Roy C. Patton and Dave Langford are a firm of Whittier, California. This spring, they shipped in six carloads car-loads of honey bees, which they located locat-ed near various alfalfa fields in the flats. They are now harvesting their crop of honey, and already have two carloads of honey stored here. Robert Dunn and I. O. Edwards are operating operat-ing the honey-extracting machinery, which removes the honey from the cells of the combs by the vacuum principle. They are about through with their work; later on, the hives will be shipped to California for the orange or-ange blossom season. Mr. Langford is at Delta, where he has gathered even a bigger crop of honey than here. In all, there are about 500 cases of honey ready for shipment ou' of Milford. Mil-ford. These cases consist each of two five-gallon cans of sixty pounds of honey. More imprtoant than the honey, is the removal of bees-wax from the hives. This product is worth about 35c per pound; the honey markets mar-kets for about 8 cents per pound. ' Mr. Dunn and Mr. Edwards will stay here all winter. |
