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Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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and thus it is that themere work with bees becomes a means ofgrace. And, finally, in my judgment, it is bee-keeiiing as an avocation that is, after all, themost important reason why there should bewomen bee-keei)ers. The honey and themoney they gain from it are simply usefuland welcome incidentals gained while theyare laying up health and strength, and cul-tivating a new interest in life, and gainingin perception and love for Gods wonderfulworld. BEE-KEEPING IN FLORIDA. Some Representative Bee-men of Florida. E. G. BALDWIN. Continued fi-om last issue. All along the western coast of Florida, be-low Tampa, a chain of keys encloses a seriesof broad bays wherein flows the salt waterof the sea, quiet an:l serene, secure from thewinds and waves that often lash the greatgulf just beyond the keys. Most beautifulfor location on one of these keys is the homeof Mr. Isaac T. Shumard, of Osprey. Hishome is on Casseys Key, one of the longestin all that region. He is 82 miles below July 15, 1911 427
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Fig. 7.—Mr. Shuniard and his daughter Florence in one of the outyards. Tampa. Mr. Shumard is one of the saltof the earth. He is 62 years young, stillsturdy and active, loves young people to de-votion (and older ones •too), and he loves theoutdoor life of thefrontiersman, and hasmuch of the spirit ofDaniel Boone in him.From boyhood he hasloved the bees, andseldom has been with-out them. Genuine,irresistible hospitalityis the spirit of his is-land home. He hasabout 200 colonies in 5apiaries, which he haslocated on bays andinlets and streamsalong the mainland inorder to make themaccessible by his gaso-line-launch and light-er. He visits all of hisyards in his boat, car-rying his extractor,Ijarrels, etc., from oneto the other. Thewriter helped him toextract nearly 1000 lbs.from one of these in afew hours—the whitesthoney he has e\er seenin Florida. His homeapiary (see Fig. 10) hedevotes exclusively torearing queens for ear-ly needs in the North. His i^resent location, too, is unsurp

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