. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 754 AMERICAN BEE Field of Labor for Bee-Keepers. In my opinion, the most promising field of labor is that of lessening the cost of honey. Honey is not a staple in the same sense that flour, meat and pota- toes are. In proportion as prices of honey climb up, does the demand go down ; and it is mostly in the devising of plans, methods, hives, appliances, etc., whereby the labor of producing honey may be lessened that bee-keepers must look at present for their success. The invention of the bee-escape was right in this line. Self-hivers are poin
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 754 AMERICAN BEE Field of Labor for Bee-Keepers. In my opinion, the most promising field of labor is that of lessening the cost of honey. Honey is not a staple in the same sense that flour, meat and pota- toes are. In proportion as prices of honey climb up, does the demand go down ; and it is mostly in the devising of plans, methods, hives, appliances, etc., whereby the labor of producing honey may be lessened that bee-keepers must look at present for their success. The invention of the bee-escape was right in this line. Self-hivers are point- ing in the same direction. What is needed is to be able to place an apiary out here a few miles, another out in this direction, another in that, etc., and then have matters so arranged that one man can care for all of them. Or these same methods must allow a man to have an apiary at home, and be able to manage it by the use of a small part of his time, some other business taking the greater part of his time. I believe that it is in this direction that bee-keeping talent should turn its ener- gies.—w. Z. Hutchinson, in the Review. Large Colonies Not Best for Winter. While it may, and no doubt does, pay to have strong colonies in the North, it will not pay, as a rule, here in the South to winter strong colonies. Anything above an ordinary colony, or about half a gallon of bees, is wintered at a loss in the South, as a moderate swarm will build up sufficiently strong, long before the honey-flow. It is worse than useless to have a powerful colony. The late Judge Andrews, of McKinney, who is high authority on bees, has well said that it was better to burn your bees off in the fall rather than have them hang around idle all the fall and winter, using honey at a great loss to the owner. This I have found to be true in this country. We need the honey here, especially in the spring, but it is best only to have a fair colony of bees, a good queen, and plenty of honey in Texas, or th
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