1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



817 



There were soine features about the hive 

 that I liked and others I did not; so, after 

 considerable thought, I got me up a box 

 after m}' own notion. I send 3'ou some snap 

 shots I helped take recently. They are dif- 



buckwheat. I have some buckwheat just 

 fixing- to bloom now, purchased from our 

 friend J. M. Jenkins, Wetumpka, Ala. 



By the way, speaking about alfalfa, I 

 planted about % acre year before last for 



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ferent views of my yard, which contains 32 

 colonies. I live only a quarter of a mile 

 from the center of the citj'; at the left is the 

 city cemeter}'. To the north, about a mile 

 away, is Oakwood Cemetery, and about the 



the bees. Last year it grew nicely and 

 bloomed well, but the bees paid no atten- 

 tion to it. I decided to let it remain a year 

 longer to test it thoroughly. This spring 

 the bees worked on it well^so much so that 



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same distance east is the Federal Grave- 

 yard, and beyond that distance north, 

 south, and east is the open country. I have 

 a very good natural field. Mj' lot is about 

 an acre and a half. Besides my garden I 

 plant crimson clover, white clover, and 



the man who cut it (it was cut while in 

 bloom) along toward the last threatened to 

 give up the job, as he said it was hard to 

 tell which were in possession — he or the 

 bees. So it is safe to say alfalfa has pro- 

 duced honey as far east as North Carolina, 



