. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 326 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. seasons, you will find a big crop somewhere in just such a location as your latterly poor seasons have had. No, sir, I say it is owing to conditions of the atmosphere, which may change from year to year, or may continue a term of years, as has been exceptionally the case during the past years ; what others say I shall look for anxiously. Now I want to know, Mr. Editor, if you are going to get scared out of the most profitable part of bee keeping—honey pro- duction—just as the tables are ready to turn ? What you mention regard
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 326 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. seasons, you will find a big crop somewhere in just such a location as your latterly poor seasons have had. No, sir, I say it is owing to conditions of the atmosphere, which may change from year to year, or may continue a term of years, as has been exceptionally the case during the past years ; what others say I shall look for anxiously. Now I want to know, Mr. Editor, if you are going to get scared out of the most profitable part of bee keeping—honey pro- duction—just as the tables are ready to turn ? What you mention regarding planting to aid the honey flow, I agree to, provided said planting is judiciously done. I have no faith in buying or renting ground to use ex- clusively for honey. I have materially aided my honey flow by year after year scattering in waste places the seeds of pleurisy, and am now adding epilobium or great willow herb. But, see here, Mr. Editor, aren't you raising most too many " bees and queens for sale " in your leader ? Who will be left to buy ? If there were nothing to be done except to exchange cash for these bees, that might do, but there is cost of packing and delivery, risk and express charges to be whittled off from the deal, and, at present prices, that cost is sufiicient to make your proposed ex- change of bees impracticable, I think. Again, by what right do you decide that poor honey seasons may be made good ones, or even better ones, by reducing the number of colonies in a given field ? That is not in keeping with my experience, observation or reading. As James M. Martin said at one of our N. W. conventions in Chicago some years ago, " When the season is poor for 200 colonies, it is poor for four, and when good for 200, it is good for 600, all in one yard, is my ; I am very glad to get a chance to quarrel with you once over your errors. But you redeem yourself in your advice to bee keep- ers not to fuss around among farmers ab
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