Gleanings in bee culture . the American Bee Journal, to di-vulge to the apiarian fraternity that Marchis also a critical time for a queen. Of courseour good friend may have discovered that 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 1495 there are times in March—yes, oftentimes inMarch—when to expose suddenly a queen tothe atmosphere may result in her catchingcold, or in a rheumatic condition when thebees believe the massage treatment may cureor kill, yet I have yet to learn from results(for we mark the date) that there is notweather in March when hives may be openedand the queen clipped. When honey is not
Gleanings in bee culture . the American Bee Journal, to di-vulge to the apiarian fraternity that Marchis also a critical time for a queen. Of courseour good friend may have discovered that 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 1495 there are times in March—yes, oftentimes inMarch—when to expose suddenly a queen tothe atmosphere may result in her catchingcold, or in a rheumatic condition when thebees believe the massage treatment may cureor kill, yet I have yet to learn from results(for we mark the date) that there is notweather in March when hives may be openedand the queen clipped. When honey is notcoming in, care must be taken, and experi-ence is necessary in opening hives, be itMarch or any other time. It is a matter ofcondition, not time. By the way, our good friend Byers does notdeny the gentle imputation that he does notscrape the propolis from hives, frames, queen-excluders, etc., every year. Since we havethe subject up, does any one who scrapesthese every season have much trouble withpropolis? I doubt ENEMIES OF BEES. It is strange how much strife and conten-tion there is in the world. As we go downinto the realms of lower life it is not only aneye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, butwe see the whole creation warring eachon the other, and this through necessity, asthe very principle of food-getting demandsthat one should die that another may have wondered if, in the plan of One toowise to err and too good to be unkind, thiswas to gender a spirit of strife and hate, bredin the very bone, as it were — a temper ofmind as fixed as it is ugly, that the potencyof love might be revealed. We know that,in the highest reaches of creation, love hasdone just this. If love is the greatest thingin the world, and its conquest of hate andrevenge the greatest of triumphs, then wasnot any thing justified that brought it thelargest opportunity? BEES IN THE FIGHT. Bees are no exception to this rule of fightor die They have a great multitude of ene-mies which range
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