. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 7b e (5)ee- \eepeps' jAeViecu. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Iqterests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHlNSOIl, Editop & Ppop. VOL, IV, FLINT, MICHIGAN, DEC. 10, 1891, NO, 12. The special topie of this issue is Remedies for Poor Seasons. That of the next issue ixiill be Writing for tine Bee Journals Poor Seasons, Their Lessons and Remedies. Alfalfa Not a Success in Illinois, i | J. A. GREEN. HE sul)ject for I discussion this month is one that dt^serves the most t irnest and care till attention from all whose income is wholly or largely
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 7b e (5)ee- \eepeps' jAeViecu. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Iqterests of Hoqey Producers. $L00 A YEAR. W. Z. HUTCHlNSOIl, Editop & Ppop. VOL, IV, FLINT, MICHIGAN, DEC. 10, 1891, NO, 12. The special topie of this issue is Remedies for Poor Seasons. That of the next issue ixiill be Writing for tine Bee Journals Poor Seasons, Their Lessons and Remedies. Alfalfa Not a Success in Illinois, i | J. A. GREEN. HE sul)ject for I discussion this month is one that dt^serves the most t irnest and care till attention from all whose income is wholly or largely ili-rived from bee keeping. Especi- ally to the former the experience of the past four years has brought home the hard fact that if this sort of thing is to continue or to be often repeated, he must make a change. Every" one of these seasons was a poorer one than I ever knew in the years preceding this period, and no doubt the majority of bee keepers have had the same experience. Now, if we can learn the causes responsi- ble for this state of affairs, we may be able to find a remedy. Or, if there be no remedy, we may learn how to make the best of In the first place I believe that climatic conditions over which we have no control have been the principal cause of the failure in honey secretion. It begins to look possi- ole that the amount of rainfall may be in- fluenced by man. Even if this be done— and I must confess to considerable skepti- cism—I think we must go further. There have been seasons when I thought that too much rain, or a lack of it, was the cause of failure. But iu this locality the past season was neither unusually wet nor dry, and our principal honey plants blos- somed freely, yet almost totally failed to secrete nectar. I have laid it to the unusually cool summer, yet I may be mistakeu iu this. It is worth remarking that during this period of scarcity the winters have been unusually mild and open, and it is possible that this may have a bearing o
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