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111uciiai t c(Continued From PageC-1)Or you can take a day or two-day-old queen out of another hive and place her in a queenless hive and the workers will raise her to perpetuate their colony.Hannow doesn t heat his honey before packaging it (he also boxes comb honey), because heating kills the flavor, he said.And after he has taken the caps off the honey frames, he melts them to produce beeswax in a solar extractor outside The caps are drained and washed, then made into beeswax in loaf-like masses These are used to make foundations for the comb frames, in art classes and for various other purposes. Beeswax sells for $.90 to $1 a poundProduction-wise, “last vear was tremendous.” said Rannow, but he is just about breaking even because “it takes an awful lot to pay for all the things ” He isexpecting a good honey yield this year, too, and since it doesn't spoil when capped, storage is no problem.Even wax moths can be stopped from growing in combhoney by refrigerating the package for 24 hours.Uncapped honey ferments in a short time, however, and fall honey crystallizes easily.Raising bees for honey is “damnably provoking at times,” Rannow savs, because sometimes they will produce well and other times they will swarm, gorging themselves on honey and leaving the hive for no apparent reasonIn addition to the honey, however. Rannow and his wife, Clara, derive an added benefit from their vard full of bees —Vcross-pollinationRannow has 40 different kinds of apples, 10 kinds of peaches, nectarines, a vegetable garden, a fig tree and a spring on his property. He buds and grafts the trees, and on some two or three different kinds of apples are growing“1 have a bit of a green thumb, he says cheerfully as Mrs. Rannow enters the garden to tend her rose bushes and otherflowers.And he seems to have a way with bees — vummv.
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Sun, Jul 21, 1974
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