. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907.] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 195 be there. No single vocation is broad enough to aflFord any mind the breadth of action that will be re- quired. Sooner or later we find our- selves tiring of sameness and we drift out in quest of recreative activ- ity. It should require strong incen- tives to cause us to relinquish all the old successful lines to take up the un- tried and uncertain new lines, yet it is often done. Nor is it advisable to go into any business deeply because some one else advises that way. It is often the case our means and fail it
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1907.] THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 195 be there. No single vocation is broad enough to aflFord any mind the breadth of action that will be re- quired. Sooner or later we find our- selves tiring of sameness and we drift out in quest of recreative activ- ity. It should require strong incen- tives to cause us to relinquish all the old successful lines to take up the un- tried and uncertain new lines, yet it is often done. Nor is it advisable to go into any business deeply because some one else advises that way. It is often the case our means and fail it may send us to the bottom where it will be a slow and difficult matter to rise again. We may compare it to allowing an old horse to get down poor and hide- bound. It will take nearly a whole summer of green grass to get him in respectable order again. We read of many instances of bees being scant in stores and in South- ern California this year there were nearly whole apiaries starved just be- fore the honey harvest arrived. Quite all of this scantiness to which the bees. Hill Overgrown With Sweet Clover, Situated Opposite the Home of Mr. Fred W. Muth, at Cincinnati, 0. that persons think themselves cut out as especial teachers and they fall into giving peculiar advice because they have not practiced themselves enough to know what the best advice is. There is a great deal of advice given which the givers themselves would not fol- low. Advice giving has become an occupation and is as liable to be "worked" to excess as other profit rendering schemes. We should re- member, yes, remember with a ven- geance that if we borrow or invest are subjected is caused by a desire to amass wealth or pattern after others. There are more than thirteen ways to improve such apiary management. Many times the stores the bees should have retained in the hives were taken out and exchangd for articles which stand idle most all the year; such as fine vehicles, silk dresses, hardwood houses, m
Size: 1808px × 1382px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectbeeculture, bookyear1
