1902 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



121 



That set them thinkino;. and they pass- 

 ed 

 A law that gave them peace at last. 

 'Twas made a capital offence 

 To be a wasp. The moral thence 

 Draw for yourself; enough for me 

 If man will ever learn from Bee. 



— Ambrose Bierce. 



children and grandchildren how bees 

 were kept in the nineteenth century; 

 just as we keep our old spinning-wheel, 

 tallow candle and other things of the 

 past. But I cannot conceive of any 

 one of the twentieth century keeping 

 bees in these "ideal palaces." 



As for queen-excluders. 1 agree with 



A MmRATOHY APIAKY OX INDIAN RIVER. 



Grafton, Mass., June lo, 1902. 

 Editor American Bee-Keeper: 



I have never seen anything in The 

 American Bee-Keeper from the pen of 

 a Massachusetts bee-keeper, and as 1 

 am interested in the subject, I thought 

 I would just let our southern and west- 

 ern bee friends know that we can keep 

 bees in Massachusetts. 



Much has been written about keep- 

 ing bees in box hives, but we have no 

 use for them here in Massachusetts, 

 only as relics of the past; to show our 



Dr. Miller — we never have used one, 

 nor have we had occasion to. Keeping 

 bees in New England is different from 

 keeping them in almost any other part 

 of the United States. We have never 

 been troubled with foul brood; but our 

 winters are long and cold and bees of- 

 ten come out in spring much reduced 

 in numbers. 



Our honey season is short and we 

 haven't such large numbers of honey 

 nroducing plants as our southern and 

 western bee-keepers; but we get far bet- 

 ter prices for our product. Fifty pounds 

 surplus is a good summer's work for a 

 colony, and we are satisfied with the 

 profit. Yours truly, 



E. P. Goddard, 



Pres. Worcester Co. Bee-Keepers 

 Association. 



