. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. ?la THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, So we must have the experimente, but they ought not to cost so much. How shall ex- pense of experiments be kept down ? For one thing, make them on a smaller scale. We lie awake nights thinking over some new fangled notion, and we think it all out, san- guine that it will be a success. But past experience tells us that it is a low estimate to say that in nine cases out of ten the old is better than the new. Yet the very next ex- periment you make, you will feel so sure that this time you are on the right track that instead of
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. ?la THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, So we must have the experimente, but they ought not to cost so much. How shall ex- pense of experiments be kept down ? For one thing, make them on a smaller scale. We lie awake nights thinking over some new fangled notion, and we think it all out, san- guine that it will be a success. But past experience tells us that it is a low estimate to say that in nine cases out of ten the old is better than the new. Yet the very next ex- periment you make, you will feel so sure that this time you are on the right track that instead of trying your experiment on one or two colonies you will make every colony in the apiary suffer. So it will keep down ex- penses if we experiment on a smaller scale. Now I want to make a plea for doing away entirely with nine-tenths of the experimen- tation, yes, ninety-nine one-hundredths of it, and yet at the same time have fuller, fairer and more satisfaction and conclusive experiments. You will understand in a word what I mean, when I say that in every state there should be experimental stations for bee keepers just as there are now for farmers. The Hatch act gives to each state $15,000 to be used in aid of agriculture, and if bee keepers will unite to ask for it, and persist in the asking, I see no reason why a reasonable share may not be devoted to them. The State Society of Illinois has set the example by asking an appropriation, and naming our good friend, James A. Green as the man to use the money. They may get what they ask for, and they may not. But they are not likely to get it with- out asking, and if they fail to get what they ask for now, they are more likely to get it next time because of the past asking. There will be a gain if the bee keepers of each state put in their petitions. The very fact that other states are asking the same thing would help the Illinois men to gain their point. And then the fact that Illinois had won would help bee keepers of other states
Size: 1411px × 1770px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectbeecult, bookyear1888
