. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Avoiding Pollen or Bee-Bread in the Sections. BY C. DAVENPORT. ^ In my last I made mentioo of the fact that the previous season I lost a large amount—large at least for a bee- keeper—by not understanding the business of producing honey better than I do. This loss was caused partly by bee- bread. A number of thousand sections, when finisht, con- tained so much of this that they were unsalable, and the honey In thousands more was so poorly fastened to the wood that it was almost impossible to haul them to the nearest towns without breakage, let alone sh
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Avoiding Pollen or Bee-Bread in the Sections. BY C. DAVENPORT. ^ In my last I made mentioo of the fact that the previous season I lost a large amount—large at least for a bee- keeper—by not understanding the business of producing honey better than I do. This loss was caused partly by bee- bread. A number of thousand sections, when finisht, con- tained so much of this that they were unsalable, and the honey In thousands more was so poorly fastened to the wood that it was almost impossible to haul them to the nearest towns without breakage, let alone shipping them. In fact, a great many were broken In handling before they left the api- ary, as a large part of them were but slightly attacht to the wood at the top. With but few exceptions, bee-bread or pollen in sections has always caused me some loss each season, and to a less ex- tent sections containing honey imperfectly fastened also, but never before anything like this. The year before, under the same management, there was practically no loss from either cause. The season might, therefore, in some sense, be ac- counted to blame, but a bee-keeper In order to make a success of the business at present must be able, and understand how, to meet the conditions of different seasons, and I have no doubt this loss I have described might have been avoided if one had known how ; and while I will admit that I might not be able to entirely avoid it if the same conditions were to oc- cur again this season, yet I consider what I did learn in re- gard to the matter was of more benflt to me than what was lost; that Is, that it will, or may, be In the years to come, for I am a young man yet, and expect to continue to follow bee- keeping as a business in the future. As I have said, what I learned last year cost me hundreds of dollars, and now It Is to be laid before the reader at a cost to them of but a fraction of a cent. I wonder if many of us appreciate what benefit a first-class jour
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