The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-07-05
THE NEws-H ERALD HILLsBURo THURSDAY. JULY s 1905
PROFITS IN AplcULTuRE.
They Are Sure and Large Where
Proper Attention Is Given to
the Business.

Can we he mistaken when we say
that there is no other field so promis-
Ing to Young man on the farm as the
field OF agriculture? We believe this to
be true, but we are we'll aware of the
TACT that there are many who fail, a
greater per cent than in most any
other field. We can scarcely agree that
1t should he counted as a part of the
farm work. but 1t should be a special
ty, II one wishes to make 1t success,
declares The Ohio Farmer. Success
can only DC attained by a person who
is lover of the bee and is willing to
learn the trade" and does not fear a
few stings. Try yourself and see
whether you can catch bee and make
IL sting you on the back of your hand
without feeling a little bit nervous. II
you can you surely are all right as far
as fear is concerned.
The experience of another year has
shown us that 1t is useless to keep a
great number of bees in "any old"
hive that they may happen to be IN.
We have also learned again that the
people as a rule can scarcely believe
that man who claims to get nearly
200 pounds of honey per colony per
year is doing it honestly. but they
seem to believe that feeding is resort
ed to. that sugar is bought by the bar
rel and fed to the bees to make them
do so we'll.
We approached a man the past
spring who had 81 or 80 colonies Of
bees, offering to furnish the supers and
combs for his bees. and to divide the
honey taken during the season equally
between us. assuring him that should
there be a good honey flow each colony
could Yell 100 pounds or more. He
is free to tell us now that he thought,
and came very near telling us, that
we would bave to haul several barrels
of cheap sugar and feed them as we
did ours at home. He was finally per-
suaded to let us try Is colonies. keep
ing 16 to attend to himself intending
TO see whether we could get more
honey than he could. The result is
that from the Is colonies we obtained
over $500 pounds of honey, and from
his is colonies he obtained very little,
II any, over 200 pounds. There are
others with whom the result is nearly
the same. These men, at least, have
faith to believe that during a good
honey flow, bees can be made to pro-
duce large amount of honey. with
out any dishonesty being connected
with II.
A writer in "Gleanings in Bee Gull
ture," advocates nine frames in a ten
frame hive; another in the same paper
advocates wider spacing. placing only
seven frames in a ten-fame hive. We
advocate eight frames as the best.
With this spacing the filed combs will
be as heavy as can be easily handled,
The eight frames will fll your four
frame extractor twist" (as the school
boy has III, and If you have three SUI
pers on strong colony you can take
about 100 pounds Of honey at each ex-
tractlng.
Honey should not be extracted until
well ripened in the hive. and nearly
all capped over; though. II you have
good house for ripening honey. where
you can have 1t as warm as 100 degrees
f. nearly every day for week or
more after extracting. then we do not
wait for Il all to be capped by the bees.
but extract as soon as the combs are
about one-half capped over.
We are more and more convinced
that there is no other can as handy.
as the common milk can, holding about
12O pounds of honey, for hauling hon
ey from "out apiaries.' These cans are
strongly made, may be handled by one
man and easily and quickly emptied
into any tank you may have. White
clover honey should be kept separate
from other havors as 1t is more salable.
is higher in price. and no lover OF hon
ey will ever tire Of its use. The first
season has given us from 100 colonies
of bees. about 10000 pounds of honey.
Say. Mr.. Editor, are we mistaken when
we say that there is no field more prof.
liable than agriculture?