. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 596 AMERICAN BEE CONDUCTED BY Floyd, Hunt Co., Tex. Producing1 Honey and Rearing1 Queens 1. Is it profitable to combine honey- production with queen-rearing in the South ? 2. Is it profitable to produce comb honey in the South ? Thorn dale, Tex. C. B. Bankston. I think it will pay to combine honey- production with queen-rearing, provided you do not run either too extensively, so that your time might nearly all be taken up with the one, and the other be neglected. But you might make both profitable, and then you have "two strings to your
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 596 AMERICAN BEE CONDUCTED BY Floyd, Hunt Co., Tex. Producing1 Honey and Rearing1 Queens 1. Is it profitable to combine honey- production with queen-rearing in the South ? 2. Is it profitable to produce comb honey in the South ? Thorn dale, Tex. C. B. Bankston. I think it will pay to combine honey- production with queen-rearing, provided you do not run either too extensively, so that your time might nearly all be taken up with the one, and the other be neglected. But you might make both profitable, and then you have "two strings to your bow," so that if one should fail, you would have the other to fall back on. Don't you see ? ,1 don't think it sound policy to bestow all our labors upon one occupation, but mix up a little, and we have more chances to get a living, and the result will be less failures. I am a poultry fancier, but my whole time has lately been taken up in the apiary, so my poultry must go ; but I produce some honey, and raise our veg- etables, and enough corn and oats for my cows and horses ; in fact, we usually raise our bread and meat at home, then we are more sure to have it. 2. Yes, I do think now that it will pay to produce comb honey in the South. Bee-Keeping in North Carolina. I do not think we have many intelli- gent bee-keepers in North Carolina. I have not been keeping bees very long for myself, but I have been with them all my life, as my father kept bees, but he kept them in the old box-hives, and robbed them once a year, and that is about all he ever did to them. If they died, it was all right, and if they lived it was so, too. However, he generally kept a great many, and got a great deal of honey, even if he did not give them any attention. Most bee-keepers in North Carolina to-day are keeping them just as he did. For the past two years I have been trying to post myself by reading the dif- ferent works on bees, such as "Cook's Manual," " Doolittle on Queen-Rear
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