Gleanings in bee culture . overwork, anddoes the strain tend to irritability? It wouldbe well and interesting to have the UnitedStates and Gxeat Britian carry on the formic-acid tests in a co-operative way, as outlinedby the Experimental Union.* Prof. W. M. Hays, in his address beforethe Experimental Union, stated that, in thematter of exchanging ideas on the progressol agricultural science, there was the fullestreciprocity between Canada and the UnitedStates. Prof. Hays might have includedmany other countries in this apicultural publication contains verylittle which is not appl
Gleanings in bee culture . overwork, anddoes the strain tend to irritability? It wouldbe well and interesting to have the UnitedStates and Gxeat Britian carry on the formic-acid tests in a co-operative way, as outlinedby the Experimental Union.* Prof. W. M. Hays, in his address beforethe Experimental Union, stated that, in thematter of exchanging ideas on the progressol agricultural science, there was the fullestreciprocity between Canada and the UnitedStates. Prof. Hays might have includedmany other countries in this apicultural publication contains verylittle which is not appli^-able to all and sucL-ess then depend upongiving the best value for the price. The new tariff before the Dominion housestill further reduces the duty on beeswax ifcoming from Great Britain and British WestIndies. Originally it was 10 per cent to allcountries; then these countries had i prefer- ence. It has now been reduced to 5 percent. Who is the power behind the throneto effect this last change ?. * Since writing the above it has been my pleasure,and to my solid profit, on account of ideas gleanedfrom members there, to attend the Michigan Stuteconvention at Big Rapids. Several of the best andmost careful bee-keepers in the State are going tojoin in the formic-acid experiments. BEES, LOCATION, AND THE APIARIST. Say, Doolittle, what are the three greatessentials in bee keeping? Think a minute, Jones. Can there beany such thing as bee-keeping without bees? Why, no—of course not. Then the bees must of necessity be first,must they not? Yes. Then you have answered regarding oneof the essentials without my telling you, haveyou not? Yes; but it is necessary that I knowsomething more about the bees than justsimply that I have them, in order to make asuccess, is it not? I suppose so. But can you not answerthe knowledge part as well as you did thebee part? No. I want you to tell me some of the, particulars about the bees that it will be nec-essary for me to kn
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