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39th YEAR. 



CHICAGO, ILL, DECEMBER 21, 1899 



No, 51, 



A Bee-Fever that Resulted in Two Apiaries. 



BY W. H. HBIM. 



I FIND apiculture a very pleasant and instructive as well 

 as profitable business in connection with my other 



duties, as I am employed by a candy manufacturing- 

 company. It may seem very strange to get the bee-fever 

 in a candy factory, but it is a fact, and I am going- to tell 

 how it happened. June 20, 1894, there came a run-a-way 

 swarm Of bees to our candy factory. A large walnut tree 

 is standing in front of the building, on 

 which clustered this swarm of bees. It 

 was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and 

 at 5 o'clock the factory whistle blew — not 

 to give an alarm of fire, but simph' to 

 quit work. I then got a small bos ready, 

 and up the walnut tree I went 35 feet after 

 that swarm of bees, without bee-veil or 

 gloves ; and with a pocket-knife I cut off 

 the limb on which the swarm of bees had 

 clustered, put the bees into the box, and 

 took it to my home. The next day out 

 came the swarm, not being satisfied with 

 the small box. I then got a Simplicity 

 hive from a bee-keeper, and successfully 

 hived them. 



Then followed what you maj' call a 

 genuine case of bee-fever, and I am sorry 

 to say that the fever is as bad as ever. 



Picture No. 1 shows what is now my 



home apiary of 22 colonies in the back ofmy lot, which is 

 very small — only SO by 90 feet — yet I think that 30 colonies 

 could be managed on this small space of ground. My apiary 

 is located on the west and north sides ; on the south 

 (which is not shown) is my poultry-yard, where I keep sev- 

 eral varieties of poultry, as bees and poultry are my pleas- 

 ure. Here I spend all my leisure time in looking after them. 



My home apiary is chiefly managed for rearing queens 

 and producing comb honey. The past season I tried the 

 plain sections, also the 3jsxSxl'2, or the Ideal super, and 

 find a good sale for honey in these sections. My honey 

 crop was very light, as it was a very poor season in this 

 vicinit}'. 



My out-apiary is located about 8 miles from here — on 

 my father's farm. It has 32 colonies, and is managed for 

 both comb and extracted honey. My father, who has been 

 a bee-keeper for about 40 years, is still interested in bee- 

 keeping. I am sorry that he was not working in the apiary 

 when I took this picture. I give him the credit for man- 



No. /. — Home Apiary of Mr. W. H. Heim, of Lycoming Co., Pa. 



No. 2— Mr. W. H. Heim's Out- Apiary. 



aging it for me. It faces the south, 

 near an apple orchard — a splendid local- 

 ity to build up a large apiary. 



Lj-coming Co., Pa. 



No. 1. The Bee-Hive. 

 How to Get the Most Out of It. 



BY "OLD GRIMES." 



A BEE-HIVE under the popular un- 

 derstanding of the term, is a box 

 made of boards, the dimensions, 

 size and shape, are according to the 

 fancy, genius or peculiar ideas of the 

 builder. The common box-hive had its 

 day, and tho there are but few of them 



