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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Aug. 15 



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ONE OF THE OUT-APIARIES BELONGING TO I. T. SHUMARD, NEAR OSPREY, FLORIDA. 



as the one I have been trying to describe. 

 The natural scenery is so perfectly magnifi- 

 cent that all avarice and sin of every de- 

 scription should give place to lofty thoughts 

 and high ideals. 

 Los Angeles, Cal. 



ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF ISLAND BEE-KEEP- 

 ING IN FLORIDA. 



BY M. L. BREWER. 



On page 435, July 15, 1909, I gave the 

 readers of < J leanings some glimpses of Mr. 

 I. T. Shumard's "Island Home" and some 

 of his bee interests. Herewith is a view of 

 one of the out-apiaries established that I 

 then told of. This one, I believe, is down 

 on South Creek, and belongs to Orville. 

 Early in March of this year while visiting 

 at Island Home we all boarded the launch 

 and took a cruise to this apiary and found 

 the bees booming; and while there several 

 hives had to have top stories given them. 

 At last reports I had, they were reaping a 

 good harvest. 



The location is on the creek bank near 

 the water, for convenience for landing sup- 

 plies and taking away the surplus, as all 

 their other apiaries are so located. The 

 view shows Mr. Shumard bending over a 



hive, and Mr. McCauley near by with smo- 

 ker to use in case of need. Quite a little of 

 the saw palmetto shows also in the view, 

 and this is their main supply crop. Bro. 

 Shumard and family now have the main- 

 land shore well stocked with bees for a dis- 

 tance of twelve to fifteen miles. 

 Philo, 111., July 12. 



SEPARATING HONEY FROM CAPPINGS. 



The Advantage of Spreading Cappings Out in a 

 Large Thin Layer. 



BY E. M. GIBSON. 



The July issue of the Bee-keepers'' Re- 

 view for 1909 has an article by Elmer Hutch- 

 inson in which he says that his loss of hon- 

 ey in cappings is $-50 for 20,000 lbs. of honey 

 extracted. Whew! Thinking some of the 

 readers of f! leanings n^ay be doing like- 

 wise I will try to describe my method of dis- 

 posing of the cappings. The illustration 

 shows my uncapping-table. There are tin 

 gutters, J, .1, on the under side, which are 

 cut in such shajie as to convey the honey 

 toward the center. Two boards, B, B, a foot 

 wide and six feet long, are nailed into the 

 frame shown, sloping from the outside to- 

 ward the gutter, leaving a space_ of four 



