. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 11, 1907 American Hee Journalj think that every practical bee-keeper will keep the moths out of his combs. There are several ways. You can wash the extractor, and you can stack them up on the hives. I have three or four supers stacked on my hives today, and the strong colonies are protecting them. If I were in the North I would prac- tice Northern methods, according to the most successful bee-keepers. Mr. W. H. Laws, of Beeville, Texas, then read a paper on THE COMPARATIVE PROFITS OF QUEEN-REARINQ AND rtONEV-PRODUC- TION. In the discussion of th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 11, 1907 American Hee Journalj think that every practical bee-keeper will keep the moths out of his combs. There are several ways. You can wash the extractor, and you can stack them up on the hives. I have three or four supers stacked on my hives today, and the strong colonies are protecting them. If I were in the North I would prac- tice Northern methods, according to the most successful bee-keepers. Mr. W. H. Laws, of Beeville, Texas, then read a paper on THE COMPARATIVE PROFITS OF QUEEN-REARINQ AND rtONEV-PRODUC- TION. In the discussion of the question of the comparative profits of queen-rear- ing and honey-production, I realize that it is a question that can not be settled by mere figures, made theoretically, but a question that can be solved only by years of practical demonstration right among the bees, and that, too, by a skilled queen-breeder. To rear good queens, and to have them for the market at all times dur- ing the queen-rearing season, expert la- bor is demanded; without it, commer- cial queen-rearing is a failure. To the man who can secure fair crops of honey, year after year, is not always due all the credit for his success; the bees do the labor, the locality furnishes the nectar, the bee-keeper only furnish- ing the hives and storage-room, and takes care of the swarms. I know just such men who make money from their bees by honey-pro- duction alone, who give the bees no more attention than that just stated; and these men seldom see a queen-bee from one year's end to the other. It is un- necessary to say that such men, though successful in honey-production, are to- tally unfit for queen-breeding. Many persons, successful as honey- producers, and also familiar with the conditions generally with the interior of the hives at all times, become enthused at seeing the multitude of young queens hatching about the swarming period, and conceive the idea that if they could only get all these young queens mated,
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