1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



433 



estimates all through might be increased al- 

 most ten times ; for the largest number of 

 bees allowed by Dr. Miller was nine times 

 what you figure on, and about one-fourth the 

 number figured by myself. In this locality a 

 colony of 10,000 bees would not be worth 

 much for honey ; and while I should assume 

 that you could get more honey in Cuba, from 

 a given number of bees, than we can here in 

 the United States, yet a colony of four or five 

 times that strength would do a great deal 

 more in the amount of honey gathered than 

 four or five nuclei, each of 10,000 bees. — Ed.] 



INTERVIEW WITH MR. BROWN. 



BY CHALON FOWLS. 



Calling next on Mr Brown I found him 

 feeling pretty blue. When I urged him to 

 join the Association he said, " I'll tell you 

 what, Mr. Fowls, I feel as though I had put 

 too much money in the bee business already. 



your bees have not paid this year, they repre- 

 sent so umch capital invested ; and your mem- 

 bership fee of a dollar a year may be consider- 

 ed as a necessary investment to protect you 

 from loss on what you have already invested." 



" But the Association is not an insurance 

 company, and will not protect me from loss 

 by fire or flood." 



"No; but you get protection from loss in 

 other ways. You know ignorant or ill-dispos- 

 ed persons might do you much damage. Sup- 

 pose some one should get an ordinance passed 

 prohibiting the keeping of bees in the corpo- 

 ration." 



"That would ruin my bee business, for, as 

 I keep only 25 or 30 colonies, it would not pay 

 me to establish an out-apiary with so few; but 

 I would sell or give them away rather than go 

 to law." 



" Well, our Association prevents troubles of 

 this kind by preventing such laws being pass- 

 ed. Then no one can threaten you with law- 

 suits." 



THE FOUI. BROOD SITUATION IN OHIO. 



I have had no returns from the bees the past 

 season, and my other expenses have been 

 heavy. You see my new building is just fin- 

 ished, and I have just had it insured, and you 

 know these things all cost like sixty." 



"Yes, that's so ; but why don't you adopt 

 the same business principles with regard to 

 your investment in the bee business that you 

 do with your other property ? " 



" Why, what do you mean by that, Mr. 

 Fowls?" 



"Just this: It is considered good manage- 

 ment to get a new building insured, although 

 it has given no returns as yet. Now, although 



" But if I take membership, as a protection 

 against unjust legislation by the town council, 

 aud I should need no help in the matter, 

 would I get any benefit from the invest- 

 ment? " 



" Yes, sir. The Association can help us as 

 no individual can in prosecuting adulterators, 

 helping to get pure-food laws passed, thus 

 keeping np prices on a paying basis. Just 

 think what a difference one or two cents a 

 pound would make to the producers." 



"Yes, and the rascals might damage the 

 market that much if allowed to go unmolest- 

 ed." 



