Year''s Work in an Out-Apiary: Or an Average of 114½ Pounds of Honey Per Colony in a Poor Season and How It Was Done (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Year''s Work in an Out-Apiary: Or an Average of 114½ Pounds of Honey Per Colony in a Poor Season and How It Was Done<br><br>The sun rose bright and clear on the morning of April 14 1905 the morning of my sixtieth birthday; and as old Sol peered over the hill-top in all his golden splendor kissing the swelling buds and cheer ing all animated nature with the intuition that spring has come I proposed to Mr. Clark my partner that we go over to the out-apiary five miles distant and set the bees out of the cellar the bees in the home apiary having been set out two or three days previously. The horse was soon hitched up as the roads were too muddy and full of deep ruts for the auto and we were at our destination before nine o''clock with the stands all prepared for the bees.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.