SEGMENT: BEEKEEPING, TOWNS, & LIVESTOCK
Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 23
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- BEEKEEPING
- Good story of Freeman Smith (who never married & lived with mother) showing Bert his bee colonies & Freeman getting stung because of walking in their line of flight. Bert says beekeeping was a lot of work. Sold $350 one year during WWII because sugar as scarce. Bert had bricks of honey that he charged $0.30/brick that cost him $0.05/brick. Bert read bee journals. Talks of bee escape hatch in hive. Wife worked like a "toe-head" preparing & selling honey. Then after the war he had 350lbs he couldn't sell so he gave it to a Baptist orphanage in Centralia. (addenda item# 99, see Aikman 9, Clip# 830)
- LIVESTOCK
- Mentions hog who found his way home like a dog. (addenda item# 100, see Aikman 9, Clip# 830)
- TOWNS
- Mentions tile manufacturing plant with rail-line to supply material for concrete. (addenda item# 101, see Aikman 9, Clip# 831)
