GETTING STARTED WITH BEES 95 



that the honey stored during the main honey 

 flow will be mostly surplus. If there are two 

 good honey flows so much the better. There 

 are man\' localities where the bees get sufficient 

 stores for early brood rearing from fruit bloom 

 and dandelion blossoms, followed by a good 

 flow from white and sweet clover and also an- 

 other later flow from heartsease, Spanish 

 needle or some other plant. 



An abundance of pollen early in spring is 

 an important consideration, for without it the 

 bees are slow in breeding up populous colonies, 

 such as are essential for storing big crops (see 

 Chapter VI). 



In some favorable markets honey brings 

 twice the price that it does in others. If one is 

 so situated that he can build up a profitable 

 retail trade and thus reahze the maximum 

 price for his product, it will add materially 

 to his income. 



In general it will not pay a man to leave 



