1907. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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bilities of the strongest human being. 

 It would only be fair to say that to 

 do a proportionate amount of work 

 a man would need to carry fifty bodies 

 of his fellow men to the top of a high 

 hill in a space of three hours. This 

 bee is what Mr. Miller has styled the 

 personification of laziness. 



Had Mr. Miller said that the bee 

 could be the personification of idle- 

 ness when there was nothing for her 

 to do, I could agree with him. Doubt- 

 less the average bee has to be idle 



need to be big, and then plan to have 

 them big at those times so that every 

 eagerly industrious bee will have 

 full opportunity to do her best. 

 Norwich, Conn. 



ITALIAN BEES. 



I have tried these bees now for 

 about five years, and they have 

 been to me a long sorrow. My 

 charge against them is that if 

 there is a stop, or shortage, in the 



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PREMIUMS WON BY MR. E. F. ATVVATER, FOR APIARIAN PRODUCTS, 

 AT IDAHO EXPOSITIONS. 



more than she works, some resting 

 weeks and months through the idle 

 season. 



The secret of success is not just as 

 Mr. Miller puts it in his last brief 

 paragraph, but rather as follows: 

 Make you colonies big, as big as you 

 can WHEN THEY HAVE WORK 

 TO DO, but let them be smaller or 

 medium when IDLENESS IS FORC- 

 ED UPON THEM'. Study your flora 

 and know the times that colonies 



honey flow for a time they straight- 

 way begin to seal the half-filled sec- 

 tions, so if there is an improvement in 

 the weather they are helpless. In this 

 way, two years ago, I had a lot of 

 miserable half-filled and sealed sec- 

 tions. The blacks never do this. Dur- 

 ing the present year two healthy and 

 crowded Italian stocks idled away the 

 season in an unaccountable fashion, 

 and so in my case it shall be exit Ital- 

 ians! — Cor. B. B. Journal. 



