Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-18

Invites.
How doth the little busy bes
lEaproveFthe shining hours ,s
BY Singing people he dislikes &
instead of sucking flowers.'',,s 5%
: That Is evidently not the way the
little busy bees belonging to w, A.
kichmond of Grand Forks spend their.
tndesor he would not have such a re-
nnarkable store 81 delicious honey,
about this time every year. MIR. Rich
modn has about ninety ewarms of
iargs*ltalian bees. The strongest: one
OF these swarrns has made 500 pounds,
or honey already this year. So they.
have been busy. Z l.
Cp-to.dnte Apiary.
MT Richmond has all the most up
to-date methods and standard equip
ment for handling his bees and ths1r
honey. about the only thing he lacks
u power driven machinery. His
methods economizAS on the, time and
labor Of the bees 81 we'll As himself
n Mrs. Richmond. He aTranges
the hives 50 that the bees can be kept
sometimes as many as FIVE OF tEe
standard boxes piled one on top Of
the other. This keeps the bees so
busy that they have no time to swarm
n leaves them. plenty Of room IN
which to operate. j.
The hives are all ten frame hives,
but Mr., Richmond uses only nine
frames in each super as they are all
better filled when only nine are used.
Each frame weighs about 10 pounds
when full. In these frames he places
4 thin sheet of wax, with even crinkles
in It such as one seesEin q honey comb
a the bees are saved the work OF
making the wax, and so have only to.
start putting away their store Of honey
in the little spaces they hollow out of
the wax. This means that they will
store up much more honey than If
they had to do all the. work Of build
ing a. we'll. Mr.. Richmond has q
wax MIN making the foundations
for the flames. He heats the wax
ana purifies IT, He then dips IN the
wax a board Of the anne size as the
frames, and then plunges It into cold
water. The cold hardens the wax and
loosens it 80 that 1t comes of in a thin
even sheet. GNThis sheet lis then run
through a press that puts the honey
comb crinkles in it, and it is ready for
8 b ~ r%;ar..
Mr.. Richmond makes everything for
the bees except the sections afdgfoun-
dations for the cornbs.e He has made
a unique demonstration case which he
will place in q. downtown business dis.
play window to show the bees at work
making honey in a large n a small
frame. ,,
Strained. Honey Pure.
AS o o as the frames are full, Mr..
rs>h-SA~a lsn.1k~ - n syoA1yA 40 n b AH
having put on his net for. protecting
his head he goes out bravely and
takes the hive away from the bees.
He then lifts out each honey-flled
frame, and placing them in the OK
tractor he proceeds TO make strained
honey. The extractor lie q large ma
chine working on the principle OF
centrifugal force. It has two racks
which will hold two large frames or
four OF the smaller ones. Before
placing the frames in the extractor,
the wax Gaping IL shaved OF with q
long flexible knife, this releases the
honey. ad the force of the swiftly re-
volvtng machine draws the. honey out.
The frame is placed again in the hive
and is ready for the h59s to refill. The
honey is drawn from the extractor,
strained and put in the rendering tank
where it is heated to III degrees. This
process ENJOY any wax thai may rel
main in the honey and prevents the
honey from turning to sugar Having
seen honey pass through this process
one can better understand why strain
ed honey is so pure and SO apt to be
free from a~dulteratAon. TT wouldnt
pay to adulterate it. Honesty here IL
not only the best policy, but also the
only profitable one. !.
The Richmond bees make cohhb
honey, too. The combs are put IN a
double frame SO that they cannot be
come travel stained. This is an ex-
c%eptionally fine Drccuet, handled as
Mr.. Richmond does 1t. He nevers
sells a comb that is not completely
capped, as lack of capping will allow
the honey,to sour. ,
A Real Bec Man.
n certainly am enthusiastic on the
subject of bees, and when you get me
taking about themsI could Keep on
al day" said Mr.. Richmond. II In
tend to develop my swarnns, but ]
really need more room. I want tt
have 1870 swaflns next year, double
what I have nov, and later I mean tt
have 500. But that wilh require more
rooms. This place Is 100 feet by 400
and runs right down to the river. II
was solid woods when we came here
about sever years ago. 1t was about
that time we started with the bees. ]
paid $50 for my arst swarrns Of bees
Last year they brought in over $4,000
ThM practically all goes back into
building up the industry. My market
Il local,> as it should be, I sell ALTO
i nv honey in Grand Forks. and I buy
ieverything I have to buy here
think that is, the proper way toIdt
business. I owe Grand Forks tina,
Inuch. as It has been here that I have
made everything I now have WhAT
I came here from Iowa about nine
ear ago, had &A5 less than nt
money. But = fellow need not bt
with out money IN q place hkesthis j
he IA willing to work.
L. Good Partrership.
..of course the bees are a. sreai
49, Either Mrs. Richmond or ]
,n,st he here with them all the time
MY Richmond understands all abou'
hAbusiness, and she has gotten ovei
nAinr nervous about working with thu
heaSs IL anything should happen t
y ma she could go right On with tn,
6uainess, and conduct 1t just 81 ".
nov do it. 1, have all the rnachiner,
forssrnaking the frames, and during tn
winter 1t keeps me busy getting thing
teadv for the resumption OF honey
mixing In the spring.
II Would like to be ableJto devots
aalsh nv tihle. to bees. fruit ratkinl
ma poultry. The soil here Is won
Xarfuilv fertile and5I can raise aim os
Awning on t.. All through IN,
Woxds I scatter sweet clover seed 10
e the raising Of white clover Tor tn,
Me-. they love II, and set sraea
HiII6tities Of h~oney7frorn II. The bee
700 on the fruit blossoms ana tar
dsnsvetgeabies too with the result thu