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bodies prepared for this purpose were gi\'en the bees for storing" room. 

 We spent a day at each yard on our next round b)oking over the bees, 

 extracting- the hone}' that was ready, and giving ihe bees back combs. 

 I had a cheaply constructed honey house at the new^ yard, which I 

 made of boards 12 inches wide, which 1 cut out at home and hauled 

 there and set up at the expense of less than $9.00, Ijut had houses at 

 the other two yards. 



On our next round we did the same work as on the former one, 

 the flow being yet on, but by the next round the flow was off and all 

 the surplus honey removed, which was not all extracted honey, for 

 some of it was in one pound sections and some chunk honey in 

 regulation shallow extracting frames, which took more time to pack, 

 and we left it for the last round, when we would have more time. At 

 this round we left each yard late in the afternoon, when we set the 

 extracting combs back on the bees to avoid robbing, then loaded on 

 the honey and carried it in to the home yard, the extracted honey in 

 cans and barrels, and the other honey in supers. 



The bees at the new yard were run entirely for extracted honey 

 and made 384 gallons during the spring flow after they built up, and 

 the other yards did equally as well. 



This raised the "bee fever" on me to such a high degree as had 

 never been heard of before, and perhaps never will be again. From 

 that time on down to the present it has never cooled down one degree. 

 The honey was all sold at a handsome price and returns put in the 

 bank, in which we already had a nice little account, and all was to 

 be expended on us and the bees next year, but during this time and 

 up to then I kept my work up at the shop and made a living thereby. 

 But later on toward fall, when I expected another light flow, I hired 

 an experienced apiarist to raise queens and requeen all my bees and 

 get things in fine trim for a great season the following year. Also, 

 he finished making the desired amount of increase and took bees from 

 all the yards and established another one, and put all the bees up for 

 winter in the best of shape, and now comes the leap for the greater. 



(To he continued.) 



Field Notes From Tennessee. 

 J. M. BUCHANAN, Franklin, Tenn. 

 Are you doing anything to increase the consumption of honey? 

 Too many people look on honey as a medicine, to be taken in case of 

 colds, or croup, and not as an article of food. This we know is all 

 wrong, but are we doing all we can to correct it? Teach the dear 

 public that honey is made to be eaten, and that it has a high food 

 value. Show them that it is cheaper than preserves, or butter, or 

 even pork. Be sure you produce good, ripe, clean honey, and talk it 

 up, and keep it before the public, and there will be no trouble to sell 

 your crop. 



