. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 762 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Nov. 2. 1905. The ' Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable tilasssk,. By E. E. Hasty, St». B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. Gathering Nectar Long Distances. Conclusive evidence that a ton of honey was gathered 5 nailes away would be well worth our consideralion. That which C. M. Tarr gives on page 652, approximates it some- what, but without being quite what juries re- quire to hang a man by. Possible that they got enough buckwheat from the 4acre field to flavor decidedly nearly a ton of afternoon honey, not buckwheat


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 762 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Nov. 2. 1905. The ' Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable tilasssk,. By E. E. Hasty, St». B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. Gathering Nectar Long Distances. Conclusive evidence that a ton of honey was gathered 5 nailes away would be well worth our consideralion. That which C. M. Tarr gives on page 652, approximates it some- what, but without being quite what juries re- quire to hang a man by. Possible that they got enough buckwheat from the 4acre field to flavor decidedly nearly a ton of afternoon honey, not buckwheat at all—and not a bee going to the 5-mile fields at all. Mr. Blunk and His Apiart. How grand, gloomy, peculiar and solitary Mr. Blunk looks in his apiary 1 And gentle- TQen galore in white bosoms look on afar off— to do him sufficient reverence—or to see him get stung. In marching a whole apiary at once, little by little, <i la Blunk, I once had occasion to see chat the rear rank soon comes to have many more flying bees than the front rank, ?even with care and slow progress. Pages 657 and 663. A National Advertising Committee. A separate fund for advertising, adminis- "tered by a committee subject to the National Association, seems an excellent plan—pro- vided the scheme that at present has the floor actually needs mending or supplementing. Page 662. A Point on Deeper Section-Cases; Excellent! Don't have cases so scant in height that a few sections can by any possi- bility have to bear the weight of a whole stack ibove. Crushes things—and crushing, even if limited to a small fraction of an inch, is very bad medicine. Covers and walls should carry the weight. Page 662. What More the National Association Should Do. Wrestling with the question, What more shall the Association do? the experts go in. Almost half—ISoutof 2"—do not advise ad- vertising; 7 out of 27 do advise it; and the other 7 use language that can be construed to favor it. Warfare against


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