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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



July 



honey, but we must not expect any 

 fancy comb honey from a weak colony. 

 —J. F. Otto. 



While extracted honey may be produc- 

 ed in any movable frame hive, it is best 

 to use a hive adapted to the work. In 

 this hustling age, one who would not 

 "get left" in the race, even in honey 

 raising, must cut all the corners he can. 

 — H. L. Burrell. 



No matter how plentiful the source of 

 nectar supply, unless the apiarist has his 

 colonies strong at the beginning of the 

 honey flow he will meet with only dis- 

 appointment and failui'e ; hence the 

 whole system of spring management 

 should be directed to the production of 

 strong colonies early in the season. To 

 secure the strongest colonies two things 

 are necessary; namely, plenty of heat 

 and plenty of food. — M. P. Cady. 



A thing should not be accepted be- 

 cause it is new, nor clung to because it 

 is old; this would bar all progress, and 

 deprive us of all our advantages as 

 thinking beings. — C. A. Hatch. 



About ten days before the expected 

 flow I place a super full of boxes, with 

 starters, and two or three bait sections 

 on each hive. Before the ilow comes the 

 bees will become accustomed to their 

 new addition and will enter it with a 

 rush when honey comes in freely. When 

 our first super is about full, and all the 

 centre sections sealed, we change the 

 full ones to the outside, and the partly 

 filled ones to the centre, lift this super 

 and place an empty one under. — G. W. 

 McGuire. 



It is the strong colonies that call for 

 lots of sections, while the weak ones call 

 for only a few; and one can hardly ex- 

 pect a large crop of honey, even in good 

 seasons, when only 30 or 40 per cent, of 

 his colonies are strong enough to enter 

 the sections at the beginning of the 

 season. — Ira Barber. 



From American Bee Journal. 



The management of supers during tiie 



honey flow is a matter requiring good 

 judgment and skill. It will not do to 

 put on a lot of sections and then let the 

 colony do the rest — that is, if you will 

 get the best results. It requires a close 

 watch and a pretty nice estimate of what 

 a colony will do, to know when and how 

 to adjust the supers. — R. C. Aikin. 



There is comfort in the knowledge so 

 often expressed — experience is the best 

 teacher. I believe a man will best suc- 

 ceed who loves bee-keeping. Other in- 

 dustries can be successfully carried on 

 when followed only for the profit, but I 

 think it necessary to love bee-keeping in 

 order to succeed. — Jacob Huffman. 



When the reasonable objections have 

 been obviated, and have been substitut- 

 ed by beneficial and substantial improve- 

 ments, then is the house-apiary destined 

 to come rapidly into favor — not only be- 

 cause of the great convenience it affords, 

 but chiefly on account of the beneficial 

 results obtained by the saving of money, 

 time and labor. — B. J. Chrysostom. 



The bee-keeper whose colonies are 

 robbed by other bees can lay the blame 

 on himself, and himself only. A colony 

 of bees in healthy condition and properly 

 managed should fear nothing from rob- 

 ber bees, except by some accident beyond 

 the conti-ol of the apiarist. — C. P. 

 Dadant. 



I find that it is a good thing to have 

 hives put up in trees close by the a»piary, 

 as in this way I catch swarms that come 

 off when I am away. — John C. Silver. 



Large, rugged, and prolific queens will 

 produce the best drones, which I prize j 

 very highly. Always, in September, I 

 remove a few of the queens from colo- 

 nies which produce the largest and best 

 drones, so as to preserve their drones for 

 fall and spring service when there are 

 no other drones. — Geo. W. Riker. 



Apiculture seems especially adapted to 

 those whose life work is a dull, humdrum 

 routine, that seems to rob life of all zest. 



