Gleanings in bee culture . , and has been for about a many places this good weather came toolate to do any good; out in the great major-ity of northern localities it comes just in thenick of time. The ground is saturated; andwhere the clovers were not killed out byprevious bad weather there will be ^ goodflow of honey. Basswoods promise welleverywhere. Some unofficial reports fromCalifornia would seem to indicate that wemay yet get a crop from that State. Manycolonies of bees over the country havestarved, and others are in a greatly weak-ened condition; but the bee-keeper who isprogres
Gleanings in bee culture . , and has been for about a many places this good weather came toolate to do any good; out in the great major-ity of northern localities it comes just in thenick of time. The ground is saturated; andwhere the clovers were not killed out byprevious bad weather there will be ^ goodflow of honey. Basswoods promise welleverywhere. Some unofficial reports fromCalifornia would seem to indicate that wemay yet get a crop from that State. Manycolonies of bees over the country havestarved, and others are in a greatly weak-ened condition; but the bee-keeper who isprogressive, and looks ahead, will have hadhis bees in fine condition; and if this favor-able weather should continue he is going toget a fine crop of honey. There will be few-er bees and bee-keepers to produce honeythis year. There will be no glucose concoc-tions masquerading under the name of honeyas before. The result will be good pricesfor those bee-keepers who have had faith intheir bees. I 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 893. I like that pictui-e of Benj. Paines apiary,[ p. 403. The wife as well as himself is in wonder he makes a success of bee-keep-ing. Where a man and woman both get in-terested in any work, look out for success. Louis Scholl makes some good points aboutpainting hives, p. 388. The best is the cheap-est, every time. For roof paint for hives Ihave found nothing to equal the B. P. It lasts longer than any other I haveever used. I believe Mr. Alexanders view of the ef-fects of weather upon the yield of honey aresound, especially thunder-stdrms, p. 392. Ihope that, after a time, we may have morecertain knowledge of the influence of weath-er and soil upon the flow of honey. That closed-end top-bar frame of D. , p. 416, it seems to me, has some advan-tages over many; and if I were to adopt aself-spacing frame 1 believe it would be thisin place of any other. I expect to try oneor two hives of them the coming season. The short biographical sketch of
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