. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1916. American Hee Journal and like enough Editor Root's views, page 965, are not far out of the way. But we must be a little on our guard lest the pendulum should swing too far the other way, shortening the flight of the bee unnecessarily. The whole subject is one of very great importance, and we should wel- come every real item of information regarding it. It isn't altogether a mat- ter of mere distance. Other factors have a bearing, and possibly some that have never been thought of. Editor Root springs a new one when he sug- gests "t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1916. American Hee Journal and like enough Editor Root's views, page 965, are not far out of the way. But we must be a little on our guard lest the pendulum should swing too far the other way, shortening the flight of the bee unnecessarily. The whole subject is one of very great importance, and we should wel- come every real item of information regarding it. It isn't altogether a mat- ter of mere distance. Other factors have a bearing, and possibly some that have never been thought of. Editor Root springs a new one when he sug- gests "that the flight of bees in quest of nectar is dependent on the distance they can see ; It is easier for me to believe that bees might smell a field of clover 5 miles away than that they could see it at that distance. Ever watch bees at work on a basswood tree ? You'll see the bees at one side of the tree flying back and forth per- haps within a yard or two of the foli- age, and none on the opposite side. No matter how slight the breeze, the bees will be seen on the lee side, the side from which the breeze wafts the odor. But then if we say bees go by odor, we ought to expect a cloud of bees always about a field of red clover, for the odor of it is great. So there you are. Just between you and me, I don't know much about bees anyway. c. c. M. Beekeeping Simplified This is the title of a small English work, of 48 pages, with 57 cuts, by W. Herrod-Hempsall, Editor of the British Bee Journal. Price 60". This little work contains the rudi- ments of beekeeping with instructions for starting an apiary in the modern way. The straw skep is given a men- tion, but with the very explicit state- ment that the old methods are " strongly ; The specially interesting part of this booklet, for an American, is that relating to taking the bees to the heather, a specially ventilated hive being advised for the purpose. Heather honey is mentioned as so " g
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