May, 1922 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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me and said, "Mr. Boot, years ago 1 did 

 not agree with you; but since that time 

 great changes have taken place. I want to 

 say to you before I die that you were right 

 and I was wrong." 



An "Apiary" in a Big Live Oak Tree Down in 



Florida. 

 "Bye-o-bye baby up in the tree top, 



When the wind blows, the cradle will rock; 

 When the bough bends, the cradle will fall, 



And down goes bye-o-bye, baby and all." 



Dr. Moore of Manatee, Florida, has the 

 first apiary "up in the tree top" I ever 

 heard of (see picture). There are ten hives 

 on three platforms of different heights. So 

 securely has he bolted everything to the 

 solid oak tliat the "tropical hurricane" (see 

 page 780, December issue) did not harm a 

 thing, and the doctor himself was up in the 

 tree during the storm. The windmill on top 



laughing stock of m:iny tarinars who visited tlieir 

 office last winter and were shown a little sack of 

 Hubam annual sweet clover seed for which they 

 had i)aid the Henry Field seed house at Shonan- 

 doiih .$150. The yield from tliis ll.'iO sack has 

 turned the tables on the farmer friends wlio made 

 fun of their buy. In the spring the canning fac- 

 tory bought 10 pounds of the seed at $10 a pound 

 with which they seeded 10 acres on their Mills 

 County farm. This experiment proved a failure 

 because of the fact that the seed was drilled in 

 with acid phosphate, which killed the seed. It 

 was then late, but they decided to inake another 

 effort and seeded 20 acres on the M. O. Allen 

 farm southeast of Red Oak. From thi.s ])lanting 

 they got a good stand on six acres and sold their 

 seed from this crop recently for about $1000. The 

 Hays brothers planted the remainder of the seed, 

 getting a good stand and yield. On Wednesday 

 they sold a truck load of the clover seed from 

 their crop, for which they received about $1,750, 

 and have about $1,000 worth of seed still left, 

 thus making about $2,750 for the crop they re- 

 ceived from a part of the $150 sack of seed on 20 

 acres of land. — From Field's Seed Sense, March 

 22, 1922. 



An .-ipiavy in a tree top. 



is nearly 50 feet high and tlie platforms for 

 the hives are something like 20, 30 and 40 

 feet up. There is a square board or platform 

 large enough to carry a hive suspended by a 

 rope at each corner, and this can be hauled 

 by rope and pulley level with each platform. 

 A windlass winds up the rope, and the Doc- 

 tor, even if he is over 60, manipulates it 

 all alone without any trouble. No big crop 

 of honey has been secured so far, as we have 

 had two rather poor seasons since the hives 

 have been installed. 



COOKING BY ELECTEICITY. 



EED OAK FARMERS TURN THE TABLES. 



Make Good Profit on "High Priced" Hubam 

 Clover Seed. 



Special to The Nonpareil. 



Red Oak, la.. Jan. 29. — Edward and Gordon 

 Hays, real estate men and farmers, were the 



A Wonderful Revolution in the Whole Business of 

 Preparing our "Daily Bread." 



I have for years past been appalled at the awful 

 waste of heat, in all the appliances we use for 

 cooking. A little heat reaches the food, but a far 

 greater part goes up the chimney, or out in every 

 direction into the air. With the new invention you 

 don't light a match, you don't "burn" anything. 

 A little heat, just enough to do the work, is sent 

 right to the spot, then "bottled up" and kept 

 there, on the principle of the "fireless cooker." 

 The current from any common lamp socket for 

 only 10 or 15 minutes (at a cost of a cent or two. 

 according to what you have to pay for current) 

 will cook many simple dishes, and keep them hot 

 until meal time. There is no boiling over nor 

 burning, for just as soon as the cooking is done, 

 the new invention snaps off the current. The 

 electric windmill works it beautifully. 



For price and description write The Wm. Camj-- 

 bell Co., Detroit, Mich. 



