. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. December, 1907. 747 American ~Bee Journalj^^ next spring our poet li id a doorway cut in the tree above Ihiir brood and storage. Tlirough this h inserted some pound section frames or iioxes, and the bees filled them with hoiKv. ILvery year since, the bees in this way have kept the family supplied with a very fine grade of comb honey. This is a true story, and well authenticated. Mr. Dodge is much interested in bees, and reads very widely about their ways. He has somewhere found, as he believes, the reliable statement that a bee furnish- es in its life
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. December, 1907. 747 American ~Bee Journalj^^ next spring our poet li id a doorway cut in the tree above Ihiir brood and storage. Tlirough this h inserted some pound section frames or iioxes, and the bees filled them with hoiKv. ILvery year since, the bees in this way have kept the family supplied with a very fine grade of comb honey. This is a true story, and well authenticated. Mr. Dodge is much interested in bees, and reads very widely about their ways. He has somewhere found, as he believes, the reliable statement that a bee furnish- es in its lifetime just one single table- spoonful of honey. In other words, the limit of the life-work of a bee is a ta- blespoonful of honey. I, myself, do not quite see how these figures are reached. There is such a difference in localities and in seasons as to the honey crops, and also such a dif- ference in bees, that it seems as if ac- curacy in averaging up would be an ex- tremely difficult task. I would greatly enjoy hearing from you on this subject. Frances E. WHEELEn. Chazy, N. Y. There is nothing new about bees hav- ing a home in a tree. Plenty of people have had bees in trees, and they are not poets, either. But this is probably the first case on record where section-boxes were given to bees in a tree, and the idea seems as poetical as novel. You are right that it would be an ex- tremely difficult task to make anything like an accurate estimate of the amount of honey that may be considered the life-work of a bee to gather, there are such varying factors in the problem. Take a bee that is born so late in the season that all gathering ceases just as it becomes old enough to be a fielder, although it has spent its 16 days at work in the hive. The next spring it com- mences at housework again, using the honey stored by other bees for its own use and to feed the babies, and it may never gather any. But the problem is an interesting one, and there may be no harm in taking average condi
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