Bee's

Deaton Bee Farm, northwest corner of hwy 301 and stateline rd will throw out a good size pile of used supplies every now and then. My son was driving by there to go to work, would tell me everytime he had a pile, but now has a job in another location.

I guess so. This was in the 70s. We'd move the hives around to different locations. He had a friend that had a huge peach grove, talk about some good honey.

One thing I never figured out is how they always seemed to find away in your bee suit when you checked it 3-4 times for places they could get to you. lol

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Originally Posted by FurFlyin

That's likely before the varroa mite... It ain't so easy any more.

To the OP, I'd suggest taking 10-$100 bills outside. Roll them up and burn them. Just chalk that up to experience. It will be cheaper. LOL

I kept bees for 6 years. Just got out this spring. I had built up to 25 hives. After losing 30-60% of my hives every year to mites I finally started treating with a chemical miticide in 2016. After finally getting a foot hold on that, in 2017 I had 3 hives get American Foulbrood. Had to burn those 3 and 3 more. My apiary was quarantined. I couldn't sell any bees and didn't make any honey because I had to treat all non effected hives with antibiotics during the honey flow. I completely got rid of the foul brood, much to the surprise of the local bee inspector. Finally in October of 2017 the quarantine was lifted and I was given the go ahead to sell bees in 2018. All my hives looked great coming out of the winter, with only 2 losses out of 25 hives. I had customers lined up to start buying nucs, then a tornado literally went right through our back yard and scattered out 14 or 17 hives all across the pasture behind the house. I saved most of them, but it took a whole lot of effort and I had to push off my customers a month because I had to make sure the hives were okay before selling.

After selling the nucs that I had committed to sell, one of those buyers came back and wanted to buy them all. I made his day and he made mine.

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Originally Posted by canebreaker

Deaton Bee Farm, northwest corner of hwy 301 and stateline rd will throw out a good size pile of used supplies every now and then. My son was driving by there to go to work, would tell me everytime he had a pile, but now has a job in another location.

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Yeah he had a pile a couple of weeks ago. I stopped and talked to him for awhile and went through the pile. All I can say is there's a reason why he was throwing them away. JUNK

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I've got about 30 never used, assembled 5 frame nuc boxes left. All Cypress, with box joints. Glued and nailed, or glued and screwed. Box only, no tops or bottoms. I'd take $10 each for them.

I also have a one year old, 3 XL Ultrabreeze jacket. Best ventilated jacket on the market. It's been washed and hanging in my closet. I'd take $100 TYD for it.

Yep, Deaton removed them from service, was going to repair what he could. A hip replacement threw him out of work for a while.

6lbtest from Oklahoma does some bee keeping. Might want to PM him.