OUTLOOK FOR BEEKEEPING 21 



keeper to deal with bee diseases, bees that re- 

 ceive no attention, other than to give them a 

 super for surplus in the spring and to remove it 

 in the fall, sooner or later fall victims to ad- 

 verse conditions. 



While beekeeping is not difficult, bees can 

 never be profitable without intelligent atten- 

 tion. Those who are devoting their attention to 

 bee culture are receiving as large returns as 

 those who follow other agricultural specialties 

 and the work is no more trying nor is the risk 

 any greater. 



In few locahties are there bees enough to 

 gather the nectar in the fields, most of which 

 now goes to waste. While good bee pasture 

 is not plentiful in an occasional limited local- 

 ity, there are many places where commercial 

 orchardists are offering some inducement for 

 beekeepers to locate within reach of their or- 

 chards, because of the better fruit crops that 

 will result from the increased number of insects 



