The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-19
NOW She Is A BEE FARMER,
A FORMER STENOGRAPHER NAP
Ply ~ 4 NEW CALLING.
ices. She Thinks, Are About the Mo,t
Profitable Live stock One Can Raise
Profit In the Honey-Managcment
OF the Farm She Raises Iucks Also,

CHAzY, y, Y. Jan. 1S.-Up In this region
is the smallest live stock farm that ever
made a profit for a farmer. The proprietor
Ia a woman, who was a successful New
York stenographer until compelled by
typewriters' paralysis TO seek another &C.
cupation.
Her stock farm is less than four acres In
extent. She owns no cows, horses or
pigs, and chickens are noticeable chiefly
by their absence. yet despite this lack IL
the animals commonly found on farms il
is safe to say that her property pays her a
better return than many Of the one and two
hundred acre farms surrounding her,
Her specialties are Pekin ducks and bees.
The former she sells to a hotel, while tina
honey Is shipped through the East. In
speaking of the bees she said:
"The average farmer thinks bees pretty
small fry, but l have found them just about
the most profitable live stock one can raise.
Not long ago from seventy hives ] gathered
a ton and a half Of honey in four days'worth
at a low figure more than 500. This was
have since gathered several tons more Of
the finest light honey. not 10 mention the
yield from the buckwhest crop.
The bad weather of last July was a
bonanza for bee farmers II was ideal
weather for flowers and not only kept thu
bees working long hours but also gave an
exquisite flavor to the honey. The ripest
fruits are the sweetest. and 80 are the III
pest blooms,
INV man Pete and I worked from morn
ing till night doing nothing but remove
the honey from the hives, and carrying
new frames for the bees to fill. By the
time we had reached the back OF the yard
the frames we had emptied at the front
w re- full ae1in. H. was eAciting work while
the honey burst last d.
How many bees have I In ALP Oh,
something like a couple OF millions, j sup
pose. II Is said that the average hive con-
tains from twenty TO forty thousand and
/ have seventy hives. Next summer I
shall increase 70 a hundred hives. I have
plenty Of pasture for tha number / think.
Il do not want TO make the mistake OF
overwhelming my range. Two years ago
a man in Vermont had 500 hives which he
taurant In Boston. He got a bad season
and not only had no honey 10 sell, but he
had 10 buy n ton of sugar to feed his bees
during the winter months.
They DON'T thrive on sugar. either. II
doesn't pay 70 overstock your pasture, and
neither does it pay 70 try substitutes for
honey on which TO winter the bees.
Some people have tried taking all their
honey to sell when the market was good
and then feeding glucose AZ two cents a
pound during the winter. In a very short
while all their bees were dead Even the
best refined glucose contains a trace 81
sulphuric acid, which is rank poison.
THE bees Of curse travel a good deal
than the limits Of my little farm
20 get their sweets. In fact they make
very little honey from the place itself. The
three chief crops | count on are the bnss-
wood. clover and buckwheat blooms in
the order named.
Il get a light crop. say half a ton, from
the herbs which ripen In the spring before
the Eastwood blooms. and another In the
fall. This honey IL really valuable for
medicinal purposes, having the properties
several curative herbs.
Through the summer the bees draw
In rgely for their honey upon the various
fruit blooms, stra wberries, raspberries.
grapes, apples. &c. and the wId
are also a never falling source
In a three-nile drive last summer j counted
went weight varieties Of bloom on which
he bees were AZ work. The clover honev
Is the brightest and most healthful. Tbs
crops, par1 icularly the
honey, Is dark and the favor not % good
Il supply the market with extracted
only. The bees can make several
pounds of honey In the time II taxes 70
a pound Of honeycomb, 80 j
prefer 10 keep them al the more ieinuhers-
labor.
ITO extract the honey the combs are
put In a machine which rotates rapidly
and expels the honey by centrifugal force.
The combs are not damaged IN the least
are put back in the hives to he renled
When We are short Of the natural
nomb We supply al Artificial comb oass'
v hich IL a shss-t ~ wax stamped with tho
pattern 81 the rel base The b.es start from
HE and the tins required for completing
he comb h. much shortened
Tho h--r n left 60 their own sweet wills
produce Hn eNcess 81 drones, which,
~ thew only eat honey and make none.
ne hy 40 msans popular With bee farmers
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