CHAPTER 10 



Nomadic Beekeeping 



It sometimes happens that, after the first crop, the weather 

 is so dry that the bloom's prospects are poor for a fall crop. 



Fig. 50. The Mississippi bottoms viewed from the Koch apiary on the 



edge of the bluff 



Sometimes also, the first crop is a total failure from drouth. 

 We have had one or two unprofitable years from too much wet. 

 But most of the short crops have been due to drouth. 



When the uplands are dry, the bottom lands or low lands 

 near the Mississippi are usually thriving, owing to the early 

 floods which recede in summer. So we practice nomadic bee- 

 keeping. 



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