. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 22, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 53. •THE VALUE OF ; We have many times noticed the exag- gerations and inaccuracies in articles and paragraphs that appear now and again in various weekly papers and magazines. The writers evidently know nothing of bees, or bee-keeping, except what smatter- ing they pick up from old bee books, or from a casual conversation with some old cottage bee-keeper, who has a firm belief in the old superstitions relating to bees that were held by bee-men of a bygone age. What these writers can do i
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 22, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 53. •THE VALUE OF ; We have many times noticed the exag- gerations and inaccuracies in articles and paragraphs that appear now and again in various weekly papers and magazines. The writers evidently know nothing of bees, or bee-keeping, except what smatter- ing they pick up from old bee books, or from a casual conversation with some old cottage bee-keeper, who has a firm belief in the old superstitions relating to bees that were held by bee-men of a bygone age. What these writers can do in the way of writing a paragraph or article about bees that i& full of—to put it mildly—mis-statements and inaccuracies is surprising. We found a gem in the Sunday Companion of February 10 last, with the heading given above. What the value of the writer's effort is we leave our readers to judge. It certainly serves to point a moral, and may amuse our readers. " THE VALUE OF EFFORT. " A bee-keeper told me the story of a hive —how when the little bee is in the first stage, it is put into a hexagonal cell, and honey enough is stored there for its use until it reaches maturity. The honey is sealed with a capsule of wax, and when the tiny bee has fed itself on the honey and exhausted the supply, the time has come for it to emerge into the open. But, oh, the wrestle, the tussle, the straining to get through that wax. It is the strait gate for the bee, so strait that in the agony of exit the bee rubs off the mem- brane that hid his wings, and on the other side it is able to fly. Once a moth got into the hive and fed on the wax capsules, and the bees got out without any strain or trouble. But they could not fly, and the other bees stung them to death. Are you congratulating yourself on having an easy time? No hardness, no difficul- ties, no cross? Beware, lest, like the bees, you lose your wing-power and perish miserably in the ; BRITISH BEE-KEEPERS' ASS
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