1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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He would " probably " know if he should follow getting things ready for next year, and Belling off 

 out hi8 proposed plan. his honey, etc. 



Ohio. N. W. A. B. Mason. Wisconsin. S. W. 



I should say six months, if his apiaries do not ex- 

 ceed 100 to the apiary. 

 California. S. W. R. Wilkin. 



Not a day— at least I suspect that from my own 

 experience, unless the apiaries are very small. 

 Illinois. N. C. C. Miller. 



If by the above is meant during the honey season, 

 none. If the entire year is included, probably 

 from five to six months. 



Illinois. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



If he makes his own supplies, I should say, " Not 

 any." If he buys his supplies, then perhaps three 

 months during winter. 



New York. C. G. M. Doolittle. 



If he keeps two or three apiaries, and gives them 

 the necessary attention, it will take more of his 

 time than he will be able to give to a school. 



Louisiana. E. C. P. L. Viallon. 



If he works with his bees every Saturday he will 

 be able to care for two or three apiaries during the 

 school months— we mean from September till May. 



Illinois. N. W. Dadant & Son. 



In a year or two he will probably have twelve 

 months for teaching. With the amount of work he 

 lays out he can do neither himself, school, nor bees, 

 justice, and one or all will fail. 



New York. C. P. H. Elwood. 



If this young man is full of energy I should gay 

 he might devote three or four months in winter to 

 teaching at first. He can then decide the question 

 for himself. 



Ohio. N. W. H. R. BOARDMAN. 



If he has steel nerves and is iron-clad, and re- 

 quires no rest, he may teach from December till 

 March; but if he is of the same material as other 

 men, he will have no time to teach and do justice 

 to his bees. 



Vermont. N. W. A. E. Manum. 



If he keeps "two or three" outapiaries of a 

 proper size, doing all the work himself and doing it 

 properly, he will probably not be able to teach 

 school more than nine months in the year. Most 

 men would not have any time for school-teaching. 



Illinois. N. C. J. A. Green. 



I think the young man will find that the schools 

 will claim to set the time for him. He will have to 

 push things to get ready to begin the fall term; but 

 I guess he can manage it if he uses his Saturdays to 

 finish up in. The winter term will come all right. 

 The spring term he can hardly take, unless he can 

 find a school accommodating enough to have an un- 

 usually short spring term. Thus six or seven 

 months would be his outside lines. 



Ohio. N. W. E. E. HASTy. 



He can teach during the winter months. Begin, 

 say, November 1st, and teach four months. But if 

 he keeps two or three apiaries ol from 60 to 80 colo- 

 nies, spring count, he can not do all the work him- 

 self during the honey season; and then when he 

 gets his third apiary to going in good shape he will 

 find that his school days are over, for there is a 

 great deal of work that can be done in the winter— 



E. France. 



I don't think I would teach any, unless I had to. 

 He might, perhaps, be able to teach the winter 

 months if he buys his hives and fixtures, but it 

 would be well for him to get thoroughly rested dur- 

 ing the winter; for if he runs three yards with 100 

 colonies each, he will have to get around pretty 

 spry during the bee-season if he gives the beos all 

 necessary attention. 



Wisconsin. S. W. S. 1. Freebohn. 



Let us sec. Three apiaries, 100 colonies each, 30O. 

 If run for comb honey there will be somewhere 

 near ~0,000 sections to prepare, besides hives and 

 many other things. We should therefore say, that, 

 doing all this work himself, there would be but 

 little time for "swinging the birch." If, however, 

 the bees are run for extracted honey, and after 

 each hive has a complement of extra combs and no 

 increase allowed, then from November 1st until 

 April he could devote his time to the profession 

 of pedagogics. 



New York. E. Rambler. 



Now please excuse me for the following reply, be- 

 cause I feel sure you want the truth as I see it. In 

 the first place, this young man's having graduated 

 from college is no sign that he is as well prepared to 

 manage your bees as some young man who has not 

 been to college. In the next place, he does not look 

 upon bee-keeping as I do, if he proposes to manage 

 two or three apiaries and teach school during the 

 " odd months." If he does the work as it should be 

 done, he will have no "odd months" at all, if each 

 apiary contains a sufficient number of bees to be 

 worthy of the name of apiary. In taking bees on 

 shares there is an enormous profit to him who 

 takes them, and a loss to the one who owns them if 

 they are worked on the " kick and a brush " plan. 

 Whoever works apiaries, whether he owns them or 

 not, should do the work well and carefully, seeing 

 to every detail, and should have all of his work 

 done ahead of time. If you aim to keep from one 

 to two weeks ahead of your bees you will probably 

 not get behind at any time; but if you aim to keep 

 just even with them you will probably get a week 

 or two behind just at the time when the greatest 

 loss from such being behind comes In. I want the 

 hustling fellow, with natural ability, and I don't 

 suppose it would hurt him if he had graduated at 

 a college, provided his metal had not been all mold- 

 ed and worked in that college until the temper is all 

 worked out of it. 



Michigan. S. W. James Heddon. 



I am much inclined to agree with the 

 friends who thinli that he should not teach 

 school at all, or else he should not keep bees 

 at all (of course, there are men who can 

 carry on two lines of business at once)— that 

 is, it he wishes to attain a great degree of 

 excellence in either calling ; and it seems to 

 me, too, that this young man is starting out 

 pretty large. If I understand him, he has 

 not had experience in handling even one 

 apiary of his own. The man who proposes 

 to keep two or three out-apiaries, even after 

 he has had experience, will And enough on 

 his hands to occupy all his brains and ener- 

 gies, even in winter time. 



