Aug. 1, 1911 



BEE-KEEPING IN FLORIDA. 

 Some Representative Bee-men of Florida. 



BY K. G. BALDWIN. 



Continued from last is.sni'. 



Three reasons make the work and ai)iarie.s 

 of Mr. K. W. Herlong, Fort White, Fla.. es- 

 pecially noteworthy. First, he is the only 

 fj;enuine Floridian among the leading bee- 

 men of the State. Second, he is in a sec- 

 tion where practically all of his marketable 

 honey comes from one source, the ])artridge 

 pea; and, third, he is one of the very few 

 men who i)ro(luce comb honey. Mr. Her- 

 long started eleven years ago with three col- 

 onies purchased from a neighbor. That 

 summer the three gave him four swarms 

 and 300 lbs. of honey. From that motlest 

 beginning he never lost his enthusiasm for 

 the vocation, and has increased till now lie 

 has 900 colonies in 13 different apiaries, 

 ranging from 'lyi to 10 miles apart. 



From choice a comb-honey jiroducer, he 

 utcs the eight-frame hive, L. size, and is 

 probably right in doing so. Mr. .J. .J. Wild- 

 er, of Cordele, Ga., who has recently started 

 two apiaries in Florida, and produces comb 

 honey, also uses the eight-frame hive. Mr. 

 Wilder is about 25 miles from Mr. Herlong. 

 Like Mr. Marden, of Apopka, Fla., Mr. 

 Herlong likes the bee-shed for his bees, as a 

 protection from the sun (see Fig. 12) . The 

 objection that the writer has to sheds, so 

 far as he has observed them, is that they 

 are too shady in early spring when the heat 

 of the sun is needed to warm uj) the brood- 

 nest for early breeding. The sun is the life 

 of Floritla; and here at DeLand colonies 

 shaded in February ami March do not do so 

 well as those out in the sunshine. Of 

 course, the hives last longer, without paint. 



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KiK. IJ.— K. W. Ilerloiitr, h'ort W hite. I<'la., mikI 

 thirteen-year-;)ld son, his (jiily helper. 



under a shed; but practically everybody 

 paints his hives in Florida. 



Mr. Herlong is a genius at moving bees. 

 The past summer he moved loO colonies 

 distances varying from two to sixteen miles, 

 and all without a single mishap of any sort. 



Fie. 12.— One of the lliirtrrii unuii- of R. W. Heilmi-. I'ml \\ h ili. I"la.. wii. > lin- i roloiiie« in nil. 

 producing comb honey exclusiv el.v. 1 he shed shown is ol llie type that Mr. lltiiony jneleis, liol<ling 

 (iiie row of hives only, which are operated from the front aud rear. This is the section of the sensitive 

 pea, Mr. llerloug's one source of honey. 



