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I HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1912 
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tention until the next spring, when the 
storage chambers that were put away for 
the winter would be filled again with the 
little section boxes and ready to be filled 
with combs. 
The bees wintered perfectly, and came 
to the following spring in splendid shape. 
The two hives produced me that season 
.just twice as much honey as the one did 
the season before, and that year at the 
season’s close I had four swarms instead 
of two, and thus the apiary grew until in 
a few years I had as many as ten hives. 
Being a man with many duties con¬ 
nected with my profession, the bees have 
naturally been but an avocation with me, 
yet to the man who essays beekeeping as a 
means of livelihood, eventually be'ioming 
the owner of several hundreds of hives, 
there are great possibilities connected with 
it. I recall an apiary in New York State 
in the midst of the buckwheat region, the 
hives of which number 800. and whose 
annual output is about 75,000 pounds, 
though, of course, in any other section 
than this peculiarly favored one it would 
be suicidal to place more than 100 hives in 
one yard. The flora in any given locality 
is naturally limited, and to keep several 
hundred hives in the average location 
would mean that we would have to have 
several bee yards of say 100 hives each 
scattered throughout the surrounding 
country about five miles from each other, 
but easy of access by wagon, auto, trolley, 
or rail. 
In conclusion I might make the state¬ 
ment that I have found that bees were not 
naturally cross or vindictive, but. on the 
contrary, become tame as pets if treated 
considerately and not needlessly jarred in 
their homes. If in spite of this assurance 
of their docility yon are fearful of stings, 
then let me say that a moderate use of the 
smoker, supplemented by the veil and 
gloves will make it possible to go through 
a whole season of the most intimate ac¬ 
quaintance with them without even receiv¬ 
ing a single sting. 
What to Plant for the Fall Garden 
{Continued from page 16) 
too numerous to make possible any at¬ 
tempt at enumeration here. They contain 
single, semi-double, double, fringed and 
laciated forms and colors running through 
every shade of pink, crimson, rose and 
red, with pure white, and combinations 
fantastic and beautiful. Imperalis and Mi- 
rabilis are, I think, the choicest of the sev¬ 
eral strains of the mixed colors. 
Care should be taken, where an abun¬ 
dance of fall flowers is desired, to keep 
the flowers picked off clean during the 
summer. This precaution should be fol¬ 
lowed, indeed, with all annuals and bien¬ 
nials if one wishes to secure a long flower¬ 
ing period. 
{Confinned on page 74) 
The Tale of 
“Old Hickory” 
For ages the trees were man’s shelter and 
abode. He lived in them. They, were a part 
of his being. 
But in the van of civilization, the trees dis¬ 
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sprung up, where once the forest swayed. 
Civilization did its work. The poetry of the 
wilderness was (jone. 
But — the desire of man to live in Xature did 
not go. The rough bark of trees, the blue 
skies, still hold their appeal. 
So he went back into the wilderness, and 
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Xo porch isroduces real satisfaction without 
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its Oki Hickory is a mockery. AVhen you tiro 
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