. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Ausr. 17, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 521 week instead of 7 to 10 pouiici^. This is an age when intel- lig-ence can be turned into cash, when, as Secretary Coburii says, "Muscle to win must be lubricated with ; D. H. Otis. Some one , " Well, what has that to do with bee- keeping-"? We answer, everything. Why shouldn't intel- ligence and brains, when applied to the care of bees and the production of honey, be equally- successful ? We feel sorry for the bee-keeper who takes and reads no paper devoted to bee-culture. He st
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Ausr. 17, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 521 week instead of 7 to 10 pouiici^. This is an age when intel- lig-ence can be turned into cash, when, as Secretary Coburii says, "Muscle to win must be lubricated with ; D. H. Otis. Some one , " Well, what has that to do with bee- keeping-"? We answer, everything. Why shouldn't intel- ligence and brains, when applied to the care of bees and the production of honey, be equally- successful ? We feel sorry for the bee-keeper who takes and reads no paper devoted to bee-culture. He stands right in his own light, and cannot possibly hope to compete success- fully with the bee-keeper who reads and studies, and then uses his increast intelligence in conducting the apiary. This is an age when to be able to compete in the struggle for an existence and subsistence, a man needs to avail him- self of every advantage possible, and nothing can be more helpful in the race for success than a good supply of iTitel- ligence properly applied. " Buckwheaters " and Grading.—An interesting con- versation between Editor E. K. Koot and Mr. S. A. Niver was taken down in shorthand, and is reproduced in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. "Buckwheaters," as Mr. Niver calls those who have large crops of buckwheat honey, as many do in New York State, have conditions quite different from others. Bees usually go into winter quarters " loaded clear to the brim " with buckwheat honey. From the time of soft maple in the spring there is always something coming in. so that if a colony dies in winter its combs of honey are not needed to supply other colonies, and being extra-ripe and good may be extracted. Mr. Coggshall extracted 3,000 pounds of such honey from colonies that died the past winter. Grading was discust, Mr. Niver not agreeing with Mr. Root that there ought to be a special grade for sections tilled out clear to the wood. He thought it would only con- fuse
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