The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-01-04
PAnHrER's COIsUN
THE HONEY PRODUCT.
From the Cor. National Stock Journa

are Inc!in31 IL l0uk p0n bee keeping al
rather small business The st0ck.raseI
who pays his one, two, or four thousand
dollar for an imported Short horn with
high sounding name, would perhaps
think he patient, indusyrlous bee beneath
bis notice; overlooking h" fact that LEX
OF SIZE IS made up i'll nnmb"r,-fhat Whle
the breeder Of the largcr stock may cou05
his numbers by hundreds aud thnusaud> :,
the aplarjan, with bis hundred or th"u
sand hives, can count his stack by IN"
millions or tens If millions inere IS 40
stock hat pays better for the care hestow
ed uDou it than the honey nee and yet
there is 10 stock 80 universal y neglecte J.
Honey is luxury, and 4 course the mar
KIT would fnt BEER she same wh0les k.
production Df it III AZ 1t wpntd Of pork
beef or mutton; but where u limited
number of yers'ns give y large share al
their rlme inteIIige n'ly to til" keeping Of
bees they find it hlgEiy profitable.
Capt. J. E. Hr,henngton, OF Cherry
VALLEY, N. Y, is perhaps the i1rg@s' bee
keeper in the Unifed States, keeping
Ir.m seven to nine hundred hives. Ii )
crop ., ID ney last year amounted to
twtut7 five Thousand pounds, bringing
him seven thousand dollars. Most, if not
ali, Of tnis honey WAS SOLD IN the city OF
New YORK. AS this honey was all storcd
IL boxes holding no. over tour p"nnd~
plor., t,,4u six tn09- III b"X.s were USED,
consuming considerable iumH +, 81" S, ana
timber in their manu-; iClurr. IN this
apiary frame hives y tsrc use,t, And naturht
swarmiOg is nearly dlspr nsed with, art,
fetal sWarmIng beng substitute ed. NJ.
DUMMY. the celebrated uer keeper at
New York, ann Auiil"r # "Ny>.er'rS o
BE Keeping Explained us'd 10 keep
eight huOdred hives of bees, $, nd1ng II. IN
twenty to thirty Thousand pounds to the
New York market
Am ,ng Lhe w e-tern bee-keepers, Mr.,
Adam Grim, OF Jefferson, Wis, has per-
haps the largest number oF bees, some SIX
hundred hives giving him last year ait
incrme Of neatly SIX Ii DusaUd d0lis's,
and Yielding hlm twenty five Thousand
pounds OF honey the present season. A
the American Bee Keepers O nVentioa,
held In Cincinnati, last February, one
hundred and cighLeeu memoirs reported
Themselves as Keeping over five thousand
hives, most OF them frame y'c't1ng, last
gear, more than oue hundred and forty.
four thousand pounds Of hol~Y
The largest number Of hlyeS reported
by Que firm Or person, V a. hat OF Bald,
win Brother, ot New York three hun
dred and niuety blves, with ei.ht thou
sand pounds Of honey, last year. Tw"
hundred and sixteen were reported b.
one person from Tenn, ssee; 'wo from
Ohio reported each over hundred one
hundred and fifty twn, and one hundred,
by two In MINI, s;ta three from Ken,
lucky reported themselves - keeping
over a hunCren wniie one liz iva reprr-
scented two hundred and thlry MRS Il
S. Tupper, az the. same S'uic, SO we'll
known to lhe bee keeping I'Hn'lc, has
hundred hives. Two rom lndlaDa re
polttd each over d huaGr q il3lG from
our own State but one dplary i one bus
hred hives was repursed, anA that FROM
the ceutraI portion. As there we're bus
four persons reported from illinois, our
leading bee keepers we're n3f represented
There are, within fifty or d hundred
miles Of Chicago, number It persons
owning from rne to four hundred hives.
In tue neIghborhood al Atlanta, Logan
Co, there a:e u number OF aplarles, Of
one hundred hives and over In all thts,.
large aplarles, as well as IN great mum
Der nf slnalier ones, DE frame hive Is
used, and with but few exceptions the
LaDgstroth, or some mod feat ion Of Is.
Il IS tue, we find scattered about the
country old fogIes with their twenty, fifty,
and Iii rare instances buudIcd bee
gums" who bring their honey to market
IN large rough "caps," holding from
twenty five TO forty pounds, no "take
Mp" il portion of their hives II the fall
brIngiuy their products III Wash-tubs,
fadIng a dull sale Tor lG at eight or ten
ceu:s pound, who talk about the liking
bee" and the " moths taking their hives,
and "rrckon hat bee keeping don't pay"
but these collections nj " gums do not
deserve to be dignIfied by the name OF
apiarles.
Ap,arians have their fancy prices as
we'll asthe breeders fl iger stock Choice
Italian queens are wolth lar more than
ID r W. ght in gold, wenty, and in some
us .uces ttty dollars having been paid
for hand some imp0I ed quEens,
The great fire Ill Chicago las unsettlei
the market Of the NurI Invest for honey,
and the extensive honey ral>ers Of that
district wit probably be oH'iged tenn
purarily to find q market IL 81. l. 'uls,
Cincinnati or perhaps New York, out II
VIII dou tless be but short time before
til, ola channels ore Restored
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The USE OF THE WORD Roast Many
persons consider 1t IncnrrecG 30 Gail meat
Or poultry of any kind roasted if it has
been cooked IN an oven They say meaf
p,ust bg cooked before an open fir, or II
is not roasted meat Ii SUM persons will
corsuIt their dic'i"nary they will fin"
themselves IN the wrong. Worcester say"