1883 



JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



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THE WHITESIDE APIARY, 



BELONGING TO W. H. SHIRLEY, GLENWOOD, MICH. 



ALSO A VIEW OF A DISCAKDED HOUSE APIARY IN 



THE DISTANCE. 



fiRIEND ROOT:— Often, when looking- over your 

 A B C, I wondered how my own apiary would 

 look in a picture. Well, an opportunity came 

 June 19, 1883; and by this mail I send you one. The 

 pictuie shows about 4-5 of the number of hives. The 



The person shown in the foreground is your hum- 

 ble servant. 



Bees are doing nicely here on white clover. Our 

 prospects are good for a fair yielJ of hooey. 



Excuse my intruding upon you in this busy time 

 with pictures. "etc. W. H. Shirley. 



Glenwood, Mich., June 26, 1883. 



Friend S., we«,re the more glad to see the 

 picture of your house apiary, because it 

 shows us also the old house apiary that 



APIAKY OF W. H. SIIIKLBY, GLENAVOOD, MICH. 



little building in the center of apiary is where we 

 take hives in tomanipulate them in times of rob- 

 bing, etc. ; we also use it to get bees out of surplus 

 honey, in the fall. 



The longer building is the house apiary which Mr. 

 Heddon built for bees five years ago. We kept bees 

 in it two years, and gave it up as a bad job. I use ii, 

 for a supply and work shop, extracting honey, etc. 



friend Heddon wrote us about some years 

 ago. Unless I am mistaken, house apiaries 

 are pretty much discarded, the land over. 

 Although great numbers of them were built, 

 for some reason perhaps not easy to explain, 

 no one seems to like them. It looks a little 

 funny to see a big rock on top of your hive- 

 covers, to keep them from blowing' off. I 



