. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1908. American Bee Journal during the present season. The local so- cieties should do all in their power to help in this matter by, if necessary, com- bining their season's surplus product so that the Secretary of the Provincial As- sociation could inform intending pur- chasers where a carload lot or more could be procured from one neighbor- hood. By working the present season in this small way it was felt that perhaps it would develop into something more elaborate during the coming years, as has been the case in the co-operative handling and se
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1908. American Bee Journal during the present season. The local so- cieties should do all in their power to help in this matter by, if necessary, com- bining their season's surplus product so that the Secretary of the Provincial As- sociation could inform intending pur- chasers where a carload lot or more could be procured from one neighbor- hood. By working the present season in this small way it was felt that perhaps it would develop into something more elaborate during the coming years, as has been the case in the co-operative handling and selling of fruit. P. W. HoDGETTS, Secretary. May 6, 1908. More Government Aid for the Bee Industry Much as the busy bee has been extolled in poetry, prose and proverbial lore, it is a re- markable fact that the bee-keeping industry has seldom received from Governmental offices the encouragement and support which its own im- portance and its immense incidental benefits to other phases of agriculture unquestionably war- rant. Perhaps this is partly attributable to the limited numbers and unaggressive attitude of bee-keepers, but more particularly, we surmise, to the woeful lack of general knowledge con- cerning the great value of bees in pollenizing fruit, clover and buckwheat blossoms. Indeed, bee-keepers are frequently anathematized by neighbors who really owe them a deep debt of gratitude for many an extra barrel of fruit or bushel of alsike seed. That orchards yield best, other conditions being equal, in the neigh- borhood of apiaries, is a matter of repeated comment among observant horticulturists. And yet, scores and hundreds of orchardists and farmers deny this, and berate the innocent apiarist, simply because they are uninformed regarding natural history, and too narrow and prejudiced to believe the statements of experts who have investigated the subject. There is great need for educational work in spreading knowledge of the value of bees to agriculture, as well as assistin
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