. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The "Old Reliable" seen throuKh New and UnreliableQlasses. By B. B. HASTY, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, O. SELLING LIGHT-WEIGHT CASES AND SECTIONS OF HONEY. The Chicago Convention seemed to have quite a discus- sion about the honesty of selling light-weight sections and cases. All right. Let there be more such discussions. In the long run daylight is apt to have a wholesome effect upon naughty deeds. Here's a chunk of wisdom to help things along : Some practices are essentially and incurably wrong. Some practices not necessarily dishonest are objec
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. The "Old Reliable" seen throuKh New and UnreliableQlasses. By B. B. HASTY, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, O. SELLING LIGHT-WEIGHT CASES AND SECTIONS OF HONEY. The Chicago Convention seemed to have quite a discus- sion about the honesty of selling light-weight sections and cases. All right. Let there be more such discussions. In the long run daylight is apt to have a wholesome effect upon naughty deeds. Here's a chunk of wisdom to help things along : Some practices are essentially and incurably wrong. Some practices not necessarily dishonest are objectionable because they lend themselves to dishonesty so easily. The good man may yield to the latter because he has to; but at the former kind the good man stops off. If he is found do- ing them his title of " good man " gets a bad dent in it. The paternal desire to make other people be honest as well as ourselves is good within certain bounds, but has been known to be carried too far. Page 164. KINKS IN FORMING NUCLEI. Two good items not universally known on forming nuclei: Make them toward the close of several days of bad weather, and the bees will not go home nearly so badly. Mixed bees from several colonies do not go home so badly as is the case when the bees are all from one colony. The last item is something of a curiosity, and is worthy of study to find out why. Doolittle, page 165. A POETICAL MlX-UP ABOUT HIVES. When Mr. Aikin gets into the thick of the fight defend- ing his new hive he slumps into poetry and says— " Mr. Doolittle kicks About a few ; Yes, and there's the Styx, across which our bees might be landed by a few ill-fated kicks—the pranks of new in- ventors—" if we don't watch ; I fear Mr. Aikin, in his defense, ignored the weakest point—brood-nest pushed across the sticks only a few days ago, and lo, here comes a long, cold storm with winds. I rather fear the brood-nest will recross the sticks, and the exposed
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