. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?????? (Entered at the Post-OlBce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter) PubUshed IVeekly at a Vear by Cieorge IV. ¥ork A Co., 334 Uearbom St. QBOROB W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, OCTOBER 12,1905 VoL XLV—No. 41 /T' (Sbttortal Hotcs ^ Comments ^ \» Good Seasons Still to Come Bee-keepers, as a class, are optimists. Some seasons are good, and some are poor, yet they are always hoping that the next season will be one of the good ones. A few years ago the editor of the Bee-Keepers' Review, how- ever, had a fit of pessimism, and expressed the belief
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?????? (Entered at the Post-OlBce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter) PubUshed IVeekly at a Vear by Cieorge IV. ¥ork A Co., 334 Uearbom St. QBOROB W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, OCTOBER 12,1905 VoL XLV—No. 41 /T' (Sbttortal Hotcs ^ Comments ^ \» Good Seasons Still to Come Bee-keepers, as a class, are optimists. Some seasons are good, and some are poor, yet they are always hoping that the next season will be one of the good ones. A few years ago the editor of the Bee-Keepers' Review, how- ever, had a fit of pessimism, and expressed the belief that we could not expect in the future as good crops as had prevailed in the past. He has now recanted, and fully rein- stated himself in the ranks of the optimists, as expressed in the following: "Along in the '90's we had very poor honey crops here in Michigan—so poor that I came as near being discouraged as I ever did. I began to feel that, as the country was being cleared up, the honey-plants were disappear- ing, and that the good crops were things of the past, and not of the future. In this I was mistaken. The last three years have fur- nished excellent ; A Defense of Tanging Swarms Some of the younger readers may not know what tanging is. Formerly it was a common custom, upon the issuing of a swarm, for all hands to join in ringing bells, blowing horns, pounding on tin pans, and making noises in any other way that suggested itself. That was tanging. It is not certain that any in- telligent bee-keeper of the present day prac- tices tanging, but nearly two pages of a late issue of Gleanings in Bee Culture is occupied with a sort of defense of the custom. Nor is it a densely ignorant writer who makes the defense, but a professor; Prof. Edward P. Bigelow. To the argument that 99 out of 100 swarms would settle anyhow without the noise. Prof. Bigelow replies: "This point is weak. The noise is made after the clustering, in my experience, when the s
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