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GLT?ANTNGS TN BKE CUIiTURE 



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FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



traeting, and is then of fair quality. Rome 

 say that, if a small field of alfalfa in bloom 

 is irrigated and tlicn stock turned in to 

 graze, a sour smell can be noticed as one 

 drives hy, and at such times particularly, 

 the sour nectar is gathered. 



This season 1 shall run the honey over an 

 evaporator containing hot water, steam- 

 heated, with perhaps a few steam pipes 

 just above, to dry the air. To stop fermen- 

 tation? No. But to enable me to begin 

 extracting sooner and probably thereby 

 controlling swarming better during our first 

 fiow, and at the same time, continue to pro- 

 duce a superior article. When our second 

 lioney flow arrives T will no doubt liave a 

 considerably greater number of empty su- 

 pers ready to liandle a heavy flow, if such 

 a flow should materialize, than would be 

 the case if I waited to hive-ripen every 

 pound of honey gathered during the first 

 lioney flow. 



Where souring is couniion, such a pan 

 would be a profitable investment. I pump 

 the honey up several feet into a clarifying 

 tank, where it separates on the gravity 

 principle, most of the wax, etc., floating on 

 top and remaining there until skimmed at 

 the close of the day's work, and a pipe car- 

 ries the honey to the tanks Avhere it fur- 

 ther settles and clarifies until ready for 

 canning. The bottom of the extractor is 

 also double and heated a little with steam, 

 so the honey is very readily pumped; in 

 fact, with this warm honey, I feel sure 

 that one of the small pumps will handle the 

 lioney from several extractors. 



During part of 1920, we ran two eight- 

 frnuie extractors, side by side, the honey 

 from l)otli discharging into a small pump 

 tank between the two. One extractor had 

 no heat apjilied, the honey from the cold 

 extractor blending and mixing with the 

 warm honey from the machine with the 

 double bottom. One %-inch pump often 

 handled three tons per day, and could han- 

 dle far more, and does it with no great 

 amount of power. A single heavy duty 

 two horsepower electric motor furnished 

 ample power to run the extractors and the 

 pump; there is some advantage in the ar- 

 rangement, as one extractor acts like a fly 

 wheel and aids in starting the other, both 

 never being started at the same time. 



Meridian, Idaho. E. F. Atwater. 



PAY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE 



How Two Boys Earned Enough to go to College 

 from One Small Apiary 



Six years ago my older son graduated 

 from high school and had a great desire to 

 go to college. We had 23 colonies in the 

 back yard. They gathered a ton of honey, 



which wo sold and sent the boy to Hanover 

 (Jollege, paying his expenses and $40 over. 



The following spring we had 24 colonies, 

 which gathered about a ton of comb honey, 

 and this, with the $40 from the previous 

 year, paid the boy's way the second year. 



The boy taught in the high school in the 

 college building the next year, and the 

 money from the bees purchased a Ford car. 



For four years in succession the bees 

 from 23, 24, 35 and 41 hives gathered a 



D. F. Rankin and his sons. Tliase two boys are 



paying their way through college from the jji-otits 



from the bees. 



ton of honey, which paid more than his ex- 

 penses for four years at collage. ' 



He and his younger brother, who is now 

 a junior in Hanover College, have now a 

 love for the blessed bees and know how to 

 manage them profitably. 



The older boy came home from college at 

 Aveek ends last spring and managed the 

 bees so that not one of the 40 colonies 

 swarmed. On June 10 the second boy came 

 home and reared queens in artificial cells 

 and requeened most of the colonies. Our 

 increase was 25 colonies, and the crop about 

 a ton of honey. D. F. Eankin. 



Hn never, Mass. 



[The new president of the Pennsylvania 

 State College is another good example of 

 the boy who earned his way through college 

 by producing honey. He was a native of 

 Essex County, X. Y., living on the west 

 side of Lake Champlain, almost opposite the 

 home of J. E. Crane, with whom he often 

 consulted as a boy. — Editor.] 



