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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



May, 



he is following such practice of feeding 

 in a wholesale way. It would most as- 

 suredly create a cloud otherwise. 



It behooves every writer upon this 

 subject to see to it that he leaves the 



which can only be answered by those 

 who have given it constant study and 

 proper attention for successive years. 

 Some love the business and woiild 

 embark more extensively but are 



im=pression upon the reader's mind al- faithless or "on the fence," and as 

 w.ays that the sugar-feeding is done of 

 a necessity, and that it is never done 

 at a time or in a manner as to con- 



soon as a son, daughter or wife says 

 they are getting cranky on the sub- 

 ject of bee-keeping and that bees are 

 too insignificant to depend on, they 

 quit. It may be that some other bee- 

 keeper 'has given bee-keeping the 

 "black eye" to him and caused him 



taminate the honey-crop. This rule, I 

 regret to say, is too seldom followed. 

 It should be followed even at the ex- 

 pense of tiresome monotony to the 

 bee-keeping-reader, since we can never 



know when the other reader will take "'^^ to spread his business. 



up the piece of writing, read it, (mis) Partial or total honey failures, loss 



interpret it and parade it in clothing by disease or wintering, often cause 



of his own make. °"e to quit, and others to lose faith. 



Let me close this with this exhorta- Bee-keeping is subject to failure 



tion: If we must at any time feed and loss, but there are sections and 



sugar syrup to our bees, and if we feel hundreds of locations where the hon- 



that we must tell about it in the papers, ey flow has never been a failure, and 



let us see that we make clear to the no losses by disease or wintering, and 



dullest reader that this sugar is fed if one is not content to start up again 



to the bees at a time when honey is or spread the business where he is, 



not feeing harvested and in such amount then he should pull up and move to 



that the bees will use it up as food 

 to live upon till the flowers come from 

 which they can get food for themselves 

 and 'honey for their owner. Such a 

 course is possible, and seems to me 

 imperative. 



Norwich. Conn. 



FAITHLESSNESS IN BEE-KEEP- 

 ING. 



J. J. WILDER. 



THERE is no industry so bur- 

 dened with doubt as bee-keep- 

 ing. Not only is it doubted 

 as being a sustaining business by the 

 outside world but many of its pur- 

 surers exercise little faith in it as a 

 side or sole business. It may be that 

 they have not given the business a j,^ reading the experience of others, 

 fair trial or it may be for lack of ^e also read their mistakes and may 

 general information, as so many let- ^void a like occurrence.— Grant Stan- 

 ters are written in regard to its profit ley. I 



a better section. 



It is estimated that only one-fourth 

 of men succeed in business and this 

 might be said of the bee business. 



The man who starts with the deter- 

 mination to succeed, investing and 

 spending a reasonable amount of 

 money on his bees, buying bee books 

 and subscribing for some bee papers, 

 spending late hours reading and study- 

 ing and planning his business and is 

 willing to take smoker in hand and 

 do constant toil among his bees, will 

 surely succeed in bee-keeping some- 

 where. While the faint or faithless 

 bee-keeper will never attain great 

 success. 



Cordele, Ga. 



