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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



DOES NATURE SOMETIMES GIVE A 



FIELD A "rest" from HONEY 



SECRETION? 



Another point I wish to bring- out, 

 and one in which I will, no doubt, be 

 derided and criticised, is this, that 

 Nature sometimes rests certain fields. 

 Who can say that there is not some el- 

 ement or condition in the soil that as- 

 sists in the secretion of nectar, that 

 this condition, or element becomes ex- 

 hausted by continual honey flows, and 

 that Nature rests, so to speak, given 

 fields for a 3'ear, occasionally, to allow 

 those conditions to again take place in 

 the soil? I know I have had apiaries 

 that seemed to work almost entirelj^ in 

 a certain direction for a year or two, 

 then, the next season work almost en- 



tirely on a field that was neglected the 

 year before. 



as in many THINGS, THE MIDDLE- 

 GROUND IS SAFEST. 



On the question of overstocking I 

 will sa.y that I may be found about 

 half way between the big crowd and 

 Mr. Alexander, who seems to be all by 

 himself away out on the frontier; and 

 to a portion of the big crowd I would 

 say, don't be scared if a few more bees 

 come into your field; to the over zealous 

 who would like to fix up a big plant, 

 and operate 1,000 colonies in one apia- 

 ry, I would say, don't do it. You 

 might succeed in a good field, and dur- 

 ing a good season, but, in my opinion, 

 you would meet with disaster during a 

 long dearth of honey. 



LONGMONT, Colo., May 27, 1904. 



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The Rural Bee-Keeper improves 

 with each issue. 



Opportunity is seldom lacking so 

 much as the readiness and ability to 

 make the most of it. 



Elmore M. Hunt and wife, of Bell 

 Branch, Michigan, are rejoicing over 

 their first baby — a girl. 



A Man amounts to something just in 

 proportion as he devotes his energies 

 to the welfare of others. 



C. Theilman, of Minnesota, one of 

 those sturdy, earnest, enthusiastic 

 German bee-keepers, passed away 



May 30. 



The Review is jealous of no other 

 journal. None of them will ever be 

 as prosperous as the Review wishes 

 they might become. 



H. C. Morehouse and Gleanings 

 are to be congratulated, as the former 

 has been engaged by the latter to con- 

 duct a Western Department. 



Dr. C. L. Parker, a well-known 

 bee-keeper of Syracuse, N. Y. is dead. 

 He was the one with whom Irving 

 Kinyon took his first lessons, as men- 

 tioned recently in the Review. 



A Report of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, also that of the 

 Northwestern, very neatly printed by 

 Geo. W. York & Co., has come to my 

 desk, for which I express my thanks. 



Mrs. Lucinda Harrison, formerly 

 of Illinois, but later of Florida, has 

 recently passed away. She was one 

 of the pioneers in bee-keeping, and 

 wrote many articles for the bee jour- 

 nals and farm papers. 



