. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 2i8 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [October. THE PRODUCTION OF AMATEUR BEE-KEEPERS A Pen Picture of the Apiarian Situation in California. C. W. DAYTON. THE RESOLUTION to regulate the production of amateur bee- keepers is a move in the right direction. Such resolution ought not to become necessary but perhaps it is better to have something which is only part bad than have soniething saddled upon us and our industry which is decidedly vicious. A few days ago I was wondering why the grocerymen could not get up some organizations and periodicals to en- tice
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 2i8 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [October. THE PRODUCTION OF AMATEUR BEE-KEEPERS A Pen Picture of the Apiarian Situation in California. C. W. DAYTON. THE RESOLUTION to regulate the production of amateur bee- keepers is a move in the right direction. Such resolution ought not to become necessary but perhaps it is better to have something which is only part bad than have soniething saddled upon us and our industry which is decidedly vicious. A few days ago I was wondering why the grocerymen could not get up some organizations and periodicals to en- tice every loose individual into keep- ing a store, by holding up all its shin- ing sides and obscuring all its diffi- culties. Some real estate capitalist who has a lot of empty store build- ings he would like to have occupied to engineer the scheme. But mer- chants seem to be of a riper class. If they have been sagacious enough to get sufficient funds together to establish such a business they prob- ably penetrate blandishments that would entice them into any business, by gusto and exploitation. Some twenty years ago when I went about the country to visit with other bee-keepers they always show- ed me their yellow striped queens and methods of rearing them. Urged me to sample and decide on the qual- ity of their honey and took me into the house where there were many bee journals lying about of three or four different kinds and were special- ly interested in articles which they contained. Seldom, and I could not well go wrong if I say that there were no bee-keepers who did not read three or four papers on bee-keeping. Now times have changed. Not more than one in ten takes a paper and I doubt if that. Three in twenty here at Chatsworth and those subscrip- tions I obtained after years of induce-. Snap Shots in a California Apiary. I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance
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