. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 9&e&&e'e'&&&&&&&'&&&&&&&&&®^^&&&^^^^'&^^'&^^'&&&&'&e&*. Eniered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. aeORQE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, APRIL 14,1904, Vol, XLIV—No, 15. ( Editorial Comments $ in One Season from One Colony. This S. R. Ferguson reports in Gleanings in Bee-Culture as having occurred with him some years ago. The season was remarkably good, the one colony, which cost him nothing, increased to
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 9&e&&e'e'&&&&&&&'&&&&&&&&&®^^&&&^^^^'&^^'&^^'&&&&'&e&*. Eniered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. aeORQE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL, APRIL 14,1904, Vol, XLIV—No, 15. ( Editorial Comments $ in One Season from One Colony. This S. R. Ferguson reports in Gleanings in Bee-Culture as having occurred with him some years ago. The season was remarkably good, the one colony, which cost him nothing, increased to nine, which he sold for , and he sold all the honey at 20 cents a pound. But after trying in vain to repeat anything like it in after years, he con- cludes that unusual conditions just made it happen so. A very im- portant factor in the case he does not mention : The fact, at least the probable fact, that that colony had the field pretty much to itself. Passing of the House-Apiary. Years ago great things were claimed for the house-apiary. Then it passed into disrepute, and for a time little was said about it. Within late years interest revived, a few men claiming to make a suc- cess of it. Conservative bee-keepers still felt like advising against it, but the one thing in its favor to which it was difficult for them to make reply was the enthusiastic success of F. A. Salisbury. In a late Gleanings of Bee Culture is given the following conversation between Editor Root and Mr. Salisbury : " But, say, Mr, Salisbury, where is that immense house-apiary that you had the last time I was here? " " Torn it ; "What for?" "Bees died too much in winter in it. Say," he said looking at me, " I wish you would take that picture of that house-apiary of mine out of the next edition of your ABC book. I am afraid some other man will be fool enough to make one like it, and then blame ; That tells the whole story. A house-apiary is a
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