. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (D 1861 ^ '^ ^l^ERIGA.^ ^t BEE-^APe^-^. 4001 YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL. SEPTEMBER 13, 1900, Na37. ^ Editorial Comments, i^ ^ Can a Man Support a Family on Bee=Keeping Alone ? is a question discust in the German Bienen-Vater by Jul. Steigel. In lower Austria, he says, no one makes bee- keeping an exclusive business, but he thinks it possible. He figures that it is a conservative estimate to say that an annual income of S200 might be had from bees, and says many at other catlings work the year round for half that sum. That would seem a very small sum to one in
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (D 1861 ^ '^ ^l^ERIGA.^ ^t BEE-^APe^-^. 4001 YEAR, CHICAGO, ILL. SEPTEMBER 13, 1900, Na37. ^ Editorial Comments, i^ ^ Can a Man Support a Family on Bee=Keeping Alone ? is a question discust in the German Bienen-Vater by Jul. Steigel. In lower Austria, he says, no one makes bee- keeping an exclusive business, but he thinks it possible. He figures that it is a conservative estimate to say that an annual income of S200 might be had from bees, and says many at other catlings work the year round for half that sum. That would seem a very small sum to one in this country', but expense of living is much higher here. As a matter of fact, very few in this country depend entirely upon the income from their bees ; perhaps not so much on account of small returns, as on account of the exceeding uncertainty of the business. It is probably true, however, that the number is by no means small of those who get their chief support from bees, holding on to some other means of support to tide them over years of failure. Buying Queens of Queen-Breeders.—Referring to the statement by Frank Coverdale, that nearly every one of SO purchast queens felf short of common stock on the honey- gathering point, E. E. Hasty propounded the question : " Shall we ' edicate ' our breeders, or stop buying queens, or what ?" Replying to this in the Ruralist, J. O. Grimsley says : " It may be that Mr. Coverdale has been buying of un- reliable queen-breeders or dealers, but I kind o' think he does not realize the fact that queens hardly ever show up as well after having gone thru the mails. The journey is evidently a drawback so far as futute service is concerned. But there are queen-breeders, and there are ; This partly answers Mr. Hasty's question, but the im- portance of the question warrants fuller consideration. Besides the possibility suggested by Mr. Grimsley—buying of unreliable dealers—there is also the possibility th
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