. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^j"^:^^ 1^1 40th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER 20, 190C, No, 38. IJi*. *i,*i.*tJ^*Vi^i^v*Vi<iJ^il:* Editorial Comments, i^ ^ Location for Bee=Keeping.—It is not an uncommon thinff for a bee-keeper to feel somewhat discontented with his location when he reads or hears of the advantages of some other location. But perhaps if all the disadvantages were as clearly set forth as the advantages, he would not be willing to exchange places. The talk upon the subject, on page 600 of this number, by "Uncle Lisha," may help to make some bee-keep
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ^j"^:^^ 1^1 40th YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL, SEPTEMBER 20, 190C, No, 38. IJi*. *i,*i.*tJ^*Vi^i^v*Vi<iJ^il:* Editorial Comments, i^ ^ Location for Bee=Keeping.—It is not an uncommon thinff for a bee-keeper to feel somewhat discontented with his location when he reads or hears of the advantages of some other location. But perhaps if all the disadvantages were as clearly set forth as the advantages, he would not be willing to exchange places. The talk upon the subject, on page 600 of this number, by "Uncle Lisha," may help to make some bee-keepers more contented with their lot. Do Bee=Keepers' Conventions Pay? is a question dis- cust by G. M. Doolittle in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. As sometimes conducted in former times, with not the best spirit pervading them, he thinks they do not pay. As con- ducted generalh' at present, they are paying institutions in three respects: First of all, according to Mr. Doolittle, is the recrea- tion, the social part, when flinging all care to the winds the bee-keeper goes in for a good time, meeting at one time and at small expense a number of his fellows whom otherwise he could not afford to visit. Second, to learn from others many things brought out at a convention that would never appear in a book or bee- journal otherwise. Especially valuable are the little pri- vate talks between sessions. The third advantage is that of seeing some of the latest improvements in bee-keeping implements. Pasteboard Method of Introducing Queens has already been mentioned in these columns. Heretofore the Benton shipping-cage has had a cork in one end and the receiver pulled out the cork so as to allow the bees to eat out the candy and release the queen. Mr. Wardell, the queen- breeder of the A. I. Root Co., hit upon the plan of using pasteboard to cover the hole, dispensing with the cork. The candy comes out clear to the pasteboard, and a line of per- forations allows the bees to reach the candy with
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