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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



this, not a pound of honey had been se- 

 cured this year at the home yard. This 

 was explained by the unusual overflow 

 of the streams in the spring, which killed 

 a large portion of the flowers. The Dr. 

 still had hopes that he might get a crop 

 from heartsease, and the last evening 

 that we were present, there was a decided 

 heartsease odor in the apiary. 



THE BIG YIELDS — AN EXPLANATION. 



Several have written to me, and some 

 came to me at the convention, and said: 

 "Now look here. The Dr. says he has 

 3,000 colonies, and that he secures over 



yields of honey, or that his home-yard- 

 did every year, but that his /lonie-apiary 

 did l(7st year. He said that the yield at 

 some of the out-yards was often only 25 

 lbs. One old man with whom we talked 

 said that the apiary of which he had 

 charge, yielded a surplus of 80 lbs. per 

 colony last year. The doctor uses 10- 

 frame Langstroth hives, and tiers them 

 up three, four, five, and even six stories 

 high, and that enormous yields should be 

 secured in a good season is not at all 

 itn probable — 400 pounds does not 

 seem to me an impossibility. But 

 that artificial pasturage cut an}' great fig- 



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CORNER OF A FIELD OF BUCKBUSH, THE SEICD OK W HICK 

 W.\S SOWN BY DR. G.ANDY. 



400 pounds per colony, now this would 

 be over a million pounds ! Then he sold 

 it at 15 cts, making an income of over 

 $150,000 each year ! There is something 

 wrong here somewhere." 



We had a talk with Mr. Gandy on this 

 ver}- point, and, as in regard to his alleg- 

 ed acres of catnip and sweet clover, the 

 misunderstanding has come from care- 

 less reading. He did not say that all of 

 his out-apiaries produced such wonderful 



ure in its production, I saw but little evi- 

 dence. I presume that the Dr. has some- 

 what improved his location by the sowing 

 of catnip and buckbush, and 1 expect that 

 he will still more improve it in the same 

 direction. It is a praiseworthy oV)ject, 

 and I hope to see him succeed. How- 

 ever, candor compels me to say that I 

 saw nothing that increased my faith in 

 artificial pasturage. I still believe it ad- 

 advisable to encourage the growth of cat- 



