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VOL. XXVII NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN, DECEMBER 1, 1914 No. 12 



Management of Three Thousand Colonies Bees in 



Fifty Yards 



By J. J. WILDER, Cordele, Ga. 



The Third Year's Work in the New 

 Field- 



Near the close of tlie second 

 year work in the new field I bought 

 some land and a cottage at O'Brien, 

 Florida which was then headquarters 

 in the new field and decided to 

 spend the winters there and work 

 at the new business. Well I did 

 spend the most of the following 

 winter there and give the business 

 another good shelve off by fixing 

 up more supplies for increase and 

 locatina: more apiary sites. 



At the close of the second season 

 I had some surplus cash after all 

 returns had come in and early in 

 the spring of the third year I 

 bought 200 colonies bees in three 

 yards down the railroad from mine 

 about ten miles, and there I estab- 



lished another branch of business 

 and there I began to widen out, 

 establishing apiaries around. I car- 

 ried nearly 100 colonies bees from 

 my O'Brien branch there and ^- 

 tablished two more yards making 

 five yards in all. I placed a good 

 man in charge and gave him half 

 the honey he could make, but all 

 increase was mine and for which I 

 paid him 50c per colony for all in- 

 crease he made. I furnished him 

 nearly all the needed supplies set 

 up ready for the increase. Well he 

 made nearly 100 colonies increase 

 and the same season he made 9,972 

 pounds of comb honey which netted 

 us close to $1000.00 which was 

 $500.00 apiece. This branch we call 

 the Branford Branch. I got a good 

 crop at O'Brien Branch and added 

 two more apiaries there, making 



