MAY 1, 191 



ity Leekteper blanding Ijfsiile liis Luiuier hive. 



IE BEEMEN I HAVE KNOWN; A SUCCESSFUL " 

 RIGHT EN THE CITY 



BY WESLEY FOSTER 



I submit lieie two pictures that show Mr. 

 J. F. Lyman, of Boulder, Colo., among his 

 bees. The source of his honey-flow is en- 

 tirely from mountain flowers and sweet 

 clover. The mountain flowers furnish nec- 

 tar early in May and June, and the sweet 

 clover in July and August. Mr. Lyman is 

 a city beekeeper. He lives right in the city 

 of Boulder, and his little apiary of a dozen 

 colonies is about half a mile from the foot- 

 hills. The sweet-clover bloom upon which 

 his bees work grows along the roadsides and 

 vacant property in the city of Boulder. Mr. 

 Lyman sold over one hundred dollars' worth 

 of honey from his nine colonies (spi'ing 

 count), the past season. He is the baggage- 

 transfer man for the Boulderado Hotel, and 

 sells the hotel a large part if not all of his 

 surplus cvop. 



His crops have been remarkable to me 

 because of the lack of suitable bee-range. 

 Last season nearly 500 colonies of bees were 

 located within the city limits of Boulder. 

 In some seasons it seems a location can 

 hardly be overstocked, while other years it 

 is very easy. 



Mr. Lyman is shown beside his banner 

 hive. He is using this photo postcard to 

 send to his friends and honey customers. It 

 sliould stimulate consumption, for it is an 

 example of stimulated honey production. 



Some comb honey produced by a back lotter right 

 in a city where there were 500 colonies in the city 

 limits. 



