. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 146 THE BEE-KEEPER'S REVIEW Is Specialty in Bee Keeping More Risky than in Other Lines of Business? W. S. HAVING read the Review for some time, and knowing that its editor, and others who favor specialty, have, from time to time e X- pressed them- selves more or less emphati- cally in^favor of the same, I wish to say a few words on the subject. I will add that I, too, am in favor of specialty. Like Edwin Brooks, I think "It is better to know much of a few things than little of many ; However, I am not sure that it is good poli
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 146 THE BEE-KEEPER'S REVIEW Is Specialty in Bee Keeping More Risky than in Other Lines of Business? W. S. HAVING read the Review for some time, and knowing that its editor, and others who favor specialty, have, from time to time e X- pressed them- selves more or less emphati- cally in^favor of the same, I wish to say a few words on the subject. I will add that I, too, am in favor of specialty. Like Edwin Brooks, I think "It is better to know much of a few things than little of many ; However, I am not sure that it is good policy to advocate it too strongly without putting up the red flag occasionally to warn the younger and less experienced bee keeper that there is danger ahead. That the young bee keeper is likely, quite likely, to become very enthusiastic, we will all agree. Don't you remember when the fever seized you? How high your temperature run, almost to the boiling point? Mine did. And to tell the truth, it hasn"t sub- sided yet; and I don't think it ever will. Hope not. For an enthusiast, with temperature running high, to read some of your specialist's articles might mean disaster, as you don't put up a single danger signal. In the first place, perhaps your reader doesn't, as yet, know enough about bees to give up everything and "keep more ; He might overlook this fact, and wake up some fine morning to find his bubble bursted. Then, again, your reader may not be well "fixed," finan- cially; and should a bad year drop down upon him,. could he carry through and support his family, until another harvest? Suppose the farmer who, as the editor says, has 80 acres of land, and wishes to add to his income (page 48), cannot buy more land, either from lack of means or of opportunity—no uncom- mon occurence in these parts. I am on an 80-acre farm, and have a system that I have been working on for the past 10 years. I milk about all the cows the place will keep, raise al
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