. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 226 Mar. 21, 1907 American l^ee Journal wise thing to do when some circumstance, or combination of circumstances, happens to leave beeless a man who has previously had reasonable success at the business. Let us put the case in a very simple, con- crete form. Suppose a bee-keeper has a varied flora of such limited amount that the bees get enough from different sources to give them a good support, but from nothing do they store any surplus for their owner except from the single source—basswood. Now, suppose the demand for that sort of timber has made a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 226 Mar. 21, 1907 American l^ee Journal wise thing to do when some circumstance, or combination of circumstances, happens to leave beeless a man who has previously had reasonable success at the business. Let us put the case in a very simple, con- crete form. Suppose a bee-keeper has a varied flora of such limited amount that the bees get enough from different sources to give them a good support, but from nothing do they store any surplus for their owner except from the single source—basswood. Now, suppose the demand for that sort of timber has made a clean sweep, and not a basswood tree is left. It is not even necessary to suppose that he has lost his bees, for what good are bees if they yield no surplus? What is the wise thing to be done? If the bee-keeper be running a large farm successfully, with 10 or 20 colonies of bees as a very subordinate interest, the matter is very simple; the bees can go, and he can do very well without them, unless it be that he can replace the basswood by alfalfa, sweet clover, or some other crop that is profitable aside from its honey. Suppose, however, that our bee-keeper is a very successful specialist, all other interests being subsidiary to bee-keeping. Loss of pasture simply means loss of location, and he will at once seek another field. But these are unusual cases. Let us take a more common case, that of our correspondent, which is not unlike what many, many others have experienced. Seasons have been dis- couraging, and now that he finds himself without bees it is a good lime to quit. Rather, he has quit, and the question is whether he shall stay quit. As factors in the problem we have a stock of hives, probably supplied with combs, supplies enough for a good crop, and the experience gained from keeping bees 20 years or more. The problem is to decide whether these are all to be thrown away, or to be continued in use by the investment of enough money to purchase one or more colo- nies f
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