. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 414 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [August 23,1888. play and chase each other like flies at the hive-entrances. They are not difficult to manage, and are splendid comb- honey bees.—Frank Benton, Carniola, Austria, July 4th, 1688 {American Bee Journal.) THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE. [1770.] It is very pleasant for any one who is a real lover of the ways and means of bee-culture just for its own sake, leaving out of count the profitable keep of the same, to see from month to month so many valuable hints on the successful treatment of these busy little
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 414 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [August 23,1888. play and chase each other like flies at the hive-entrances. They are not difficult to manage, and are splendid comb- honey bees.—Frank Benton, Carniola, Austria, July 4th, 1688 {American Bee Journal.) THE VALUE OF EXPERIENCE. [1770.] It is very pleasant for any one who is a real lover of the ways and means of bee-culture just for its own sake, leaving out of count the profitable keep of the same, to see from month to month so many valuable hints on the successful treatment of these busy little insects. I believe this is a subject in which we gain more real knowledge by experience or by reading tho experiences of others than by perusing the theories, un- supported by practical tests, of the most capable of writers. One fact among bees is worth a hundred fancies; therefore it is that the portion of your excellent Journal that is more distinctly given to this department is in reality the best for amateurs and cottage bee-keepers ; and to make it answer the purpose for which it is in- tended every available help possible to the practical working in all the departments is the very best and foremost design to be kept in view. Now, Sir, I speak from a part of the country from which I believe you have no correspondence, and with your permission I shall occasionally give you some ex- periences here if it should in any way prove useful and to the benefit of your numerous readers. The weather has turned out almost completely against us here. In the early days of tho summer everything went on splendidly, and we were promising ourselves a large harvest; but the wet weather came, and has so continued almost constantly. So that I am afraid the sections now half filled will scarcely be finished before the season is out, still we may expect some good work yet if the weather would improve. I cannot trouble you any further, but hope to return to something more practical next time.—
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