. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. ends of the frames are securely fastened to- gether by propolis. The drift of apiculture seems to be, as in almost all other things, to specialty. If he is a queen breeder, he will not find it convenient to take or attend to a large crop of honey ; and if he is a supply dealer it will very much interfere with either honey or queens. But the production of, and caring for, the houey the bees produce should be the object of all apiarists, that is the fundamen- tal principle on which apiculture rests. This country could easily spare
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. ends of the frames are securely fastened to- gether by propolis. The drift of apiculture seems to be, as in almost all other things, to specialty. If he is a queen breeder, he will not find it convenient to take or attend to a large crop of honey ; and if he is a supply dealer it will very much interfere with either honey or queens. But the production of, and caring for, the houey the bees produce should be the object of all apiarists, that is the fundamen- tal principle on which apiculture rests. This country could easily spare some of its Bee-Keepers. It needs more Apiarists. To increase the production of honey should be the aim of every true apiarist. To do this requires his utmost skill and constant vigilance, and he must provide for the honey harvest months ahead, if he would have his dish right side up when the honey flow comes. He must have a strong colony of young bees, well provided with wholesome stores at the beginning of winter ; they must also have a queen that is (jood, young and vigorous. By good we mean a queen that is from a pure mother, let her be mated as she may. Queens should always be reared from a mother that is pure, be it Italian, Carnio- lian or Cyprian, and the mother should be selected for her honey qualities, without ref- erence to her propensitiy to produce highly colored bees, only seeing that her bees are all similarly marked and have the character- istic marks of her race. In fact, to see that she is purely mated. While the daughters of such a queen will give the highest satisfac- tion as honey gatherers without reference to how they are mated, yet the mis-mated queens should never be allowed to produce queens. If they do the apiary is sure to have a downward tendency. A mis-mated or hybrid queen is no more tit to breed from than a mule would be, were such a thing pos- sible. There are a great mass of bee-keepers in this country that need to be reached; how to reach the
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