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“Here's to the little honeybee Whose sex is hard to see. It’s hard to tell he from she But she can tell and so can he. The honeybee is a busy soul With little time for birth control And that is why, in days like these We have so many sons of bees. ”
Jane and Maurice Herndon of Greenoch Farm at Sperryville are typical of the average beekeeper in this area of the state, most of whom keep bees for recreation and as a hobby. The Herndons maintain five hives from which they obtain 350 to 650 pounds of honey each season. The season is usually the five months from April through August. To start and maintain even this small operation the Herndons have a financial investment of several thousand dollars.
Apiculture is the name beekeepers give to the process of relieving honeybees of their surplus winter supply of food (honey). Apiculture became popular soon after the mid1800s when a Pennsylvania school teacher discovered certain things about honeybees that brought abbut the development bf a hive box with
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