Gleanings in bee culture . e bringsout of those hills something the world canlove and appreciate. Just so with the bee-keeper who loves the bees, and through sucha love brings out honey from them to sweetenand enrich the lives of others who appreciatethat best of all sweets, honey. I know it istrue that somes lines of business pay betterthan others; but all are profitable to the onewho loves them and persists till profit comesfrom them. The thought I wish you to takewith you especially is this: It is the man be-hind the business who makes the businessprofitable; and it is the love for the btcs
Gleanings in bee culture . e bringsout of those hills something the world canlove and appreciate. Just so with the bee-keeper who loves the bees, and through sucha love brings out honey from them to sweetenand enrich the lives of others who appreciatethat best of all sweets, honey. I know it istrue that somes lines of business pay betterthan others; but all are profitable to the onewho loves them and persists till profit comesfrom them. The thought I wish you to takewith you especially is this: It is the man be-hind the business who makes the businessprofitable; and it is the love for the btcsinesswhich ;s behind the man that enables him toendure reverses and hold out until success isattained. Now, if you can put on this coat,start out for your 400 to 600 colonies and 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 1563 bee-keeping as your vocation; but if you cannot put on the coat, better stay where youare with your 31 to 50 colonies as a side is-sue, together with your chickens and teaming,or use bee-keeping as an CONSUMPTION OF WINTER STORES. A Study of the Conditions Governing theAmounts of Honey Used by Various Col-onies During the Winter; Some OutdoorColonies that Consumed but a SmallAmount of Stores. BY ALLEN LATHAM. How many bee-keepers know by actualtrial how much their colonies consume ofwinter stores in the four months of inactiv-ity? For one I had allowed the matter torest upon guesswork till I had kept beesover twenty years. But during the fall of1905 I determined to find out the actualtruth, not that one season will tell the storyof all seasons, but that I might have at leastsome data upon which I could rely. So Iweighed thirty colonies December 1, 1905,and on April 2, 1906. These four months arethe actual months of confinement in thislocality, since the bees have frequent flightswell up to the close of November, and byApril 1st are starting in to breed, again beingable to fly every few days. These data will not, of course, cover the sixweeks of consumptio
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