. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 561 Progress is the watchword of all modern undertakings. The intelligent bee-keeper must study incessantly. Nearly every colony has its peculiarities, which must be considered, and adapta- tions made for its treatment—such as, how much it will have to be helped or stimulated to get it to the proper pitch by harvest time. Success in almost everything is won by attention to details, and this is particularly true in bee- keeping. In these days of progressiveness, feats are heralded which in earlier days would have been looked upon
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 561 Progress is the watchword of all modern undertakings. The intelligent bee-keeper must study incessantly. Nearly every colony has its peculiarities, which must be considered, and adapta- tions made for its treatment—such as, how much it will have to be helped or stimulated to get it to the proper pitch by harvest time. Success in almost everything is won by attention to details, and this is particularly true in bee- keeping. In these days of progressiveness, feats are heralded which in earlier days would have been looked upon with incredulity, but which are now received with perfect credence. The sending of queen-bees safely from one side of the ocean to the other, or from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern, through the mails, a few years ago would have been looked upon as almost an impossibility, when to-day it is common, and very little talked about. What next ?. To bee or not to bee, that's the question. The Amateur Bee-Keeper, by J. W. Rouse, is a book of 52 pages, intended, as its name indicates, for beginners. Price, 25 cents. For sale at this office. Milk-Weed Honey Samples were received recently from Clark H. Montague, of Archie, Mich. We received the following from Mr. M. in regard to the two samples sent, which was written just before forwarding the honey : I will send you samples of milkweed honey. One is a sample of honey ex- tracted after the cells were all capped ; the other was extracted just as the bees commenced to cap the cells, then put into a tank and covered over with cheese-cloth. I will be much pleased if you will state in the Bee Journal whether or not you can find any difference, and if you can, state which is which. I marked one vial by tying a string around it. Clark A. Montague. Upon receipt of the samples of honey we tasted them, and noticed that the honey in the vial with a string around its neck was the milder tasting of the two, and judged that it was the one tha
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