THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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ble, and by far the less conducive to the 

 (general welfare and happiness of the masses. 



To plant for honey is out of the question. 

 To tjo to the (lowers is also out of tiie (jues- 

 tion with many. Those who are able to and 

 will specialize, mast go where they can do 

 it. Those who cannot tjo to the favored lo- 

 cations, must do as they can. The latter 

 need not, however, entirely cear^e to raise 

 honey. The man who knows both theoret- 

 ically how to raise honey, can in the great 

 majority of cases raise his own honey cheap- 

 er than he can buy it. In a paper read be- 

 fore our farmers' institute last year, I said 

 every farmer could raise his own honey 

 cheaper than I could sell it to him. The 

 method was to keep a few colonies as a seed 

 stock, and when they swarmed to hive them 

 ill a large box until fall, then sulphur the 

 new colonies, taking the best honey and 

 feeding the poorer or that unlit for table use. 

 In the past we did not know that the old col- 

 ony was the best, having the new queen. 

 (Ud methods applied in new ways may yet 

 become more generally practiced. 



There are wheat, hay, fruit, wool, stock 

 raising and manufacturing districts and 

 honey production is subject to like laws. 

 The specialist goes where his line succeeds, 

 yet this does not exclude the practice of 

 these pursuits to a limited extent in other 

 places. Where honey will not pay as a spe- 

 cialty, tiie price will be such that it can be 

 raised in a small way as a side-issue. Spe- 

 cialists are bound to produce all articles of 

 trade that go into the general channels of 

 commerce, and the side-issue should not at- 

 tempt to go outside of home trade to find a 

 market. The side-issue plan is by no means 

 to be despised as a help in making a living. 

 You are right, friend Hutchinson. There 

 will be the specialist in favored locations, 

 but in the unfavorable localities honey must 

 be raised only as a side-issue, just as in other 

 lines. 



Now as to the future of bee-keeping in the 

 hands of the specialist, there will be some 

 decided changes in methods. I think the 

 changes will be more marked In the raising 

 of extracted than in comb honey production. 

 Nice comb is bound to hold a place in the 

 list of good things, but extracted is sure to 

 be driven from the held unless its produc- 

 tion can be cheapened. That it will be 

 cheapened and that Ixlore long, I have no 

 doubt. 



LovKLANU, Colo. 



Jan. :'.l, lS;ir.. 



Monopoly in Inventions. 



T. F. JSINGHAM. 



T N the last Review 

 1 Mr. B. T a y 1 o r 

 gives expression to 

 a common s e u ti - 

 inent among lee- 

 keepers regarding 

 credit for inven- 

 tions. While Mr. 

 Taylor's inventions 

 were no doul>t 

 made as he says, 

 and he often wrote 

 to A. I Root about 

 them, he seems to have failed in Ijringing 

 them to the notice of the public. Now, I 

 like to have everyone who invents a good 

 thing, and makes a reasonable effort to ben- 

 etit others l)y it, succeed in obtaining the 

 credit and some money consideration for 

 his disinterested effort. Had Mr. Taylor pat- 

 ented his inventions, as Mr. Heddon did, 

 and introduced them to the bee-keepers, 

 they would have given him a house in less 

 than fourteen years, and he would have had 

 better data for the credit he now so mnch 

 covets. 



" Render unto Ceasar the things which are 

 Ceasars." 

 Abuonia, Mich, Feb. 14, IHiin. 



Less Honey per Colony May be Secured in 



the Future but Improvements Will 



Lessen tbe Cost. 



G. A. DEADMAN. 



;rjHE bee-keeping of the future will nn- 

 1.' doubtedly ditt'er trom that of the past. 

 It differs now considerably from that of only 

 a few years ago, and must continue to differ. 

 If we were living in the " East,'' Syria for in- 

 stance, and did as they do in many things, 

 there would probably be very little change, 

 as they are slow to adopt new methods, be- 

 ing content to live as their fathers did. We 

 in the " West" pride ourselves on being pro- 

 gressive, which, if true, there must of neces- 

 sity be a difference, arisiug from improved 

 methods ami appliances, saying nothing of 

 that arising from extended or depressed 

 markets. Rather would it not have been bet- 

 to have asked, " Wkereiii will the bee-keep- 

 ing of the future differ from the past ?" 



