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Fig. 7.— Mr. Shuniard and his daughter Florence in one of the outyards. 



Tampa. Mr. Shumard is one of the "salt 

 of the earth." He is 62 years young, still 

 sturdy and active, loves young people to de- 

 votion (and older ones • 

 too) , and he loves the 

 outdoor life of the 

 frontiersman, and has 

 much of the spirit of 

 Daniel Boone in him. 

 From boyhood he has 

 loved the bees, and 

 seldom has been with- 

 out them. Genuine, 

 irresistible hospitality 

 is the spirit of his is- 

 land home. He has 

 about 200 colonies in 5 

 apiaries, which he has 

 located on bays and 

 inlets and streams 

 along the mainland in 

 order to make them 

 accessible by his gaso- 

 line-launch and light- 

 er. He visits all of his 

 yards in his boat, car- 

 rying his extractor, 

 Ijarrels, etc., from one 

 to the other. The 

 writer helped him to 

 extract nearly 1000 lbs. 

 from one of these in a 

 few hours — the whitest 

 honey he has e\er seen 

 in Florida. His home 

 apiary (see Fig. 10) he 

 devotes exclusively to 

 rearing queens for ear- 

 ly needs in the North. 



His i^resent location, too, is unsurpassed for 

 correct mating, as the mainland is nearly a 

 mile away, in a bee-line, and few queens 



l-'ig. S. — Mr. Sliuniard's ant-proof honey-house. 



