March, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



Cliiklreii kept too long in their seats at 

 school soon arrive at a condition that de- 

 mands a chance to use the muscles. Travel- 

 ers at sea will for long stretches of time 

 walk the decks. Sometimes this is done from 

 sense of duty, but more often it is done be- 

 cause of irresistible nervous impulse. After 

 one or two turns their scenery becomes 

 about as varied as does that of the caged 

 tiger, but they keep on walking. 



If I am right in interpreting the age of 

 these bees, namely, that they are of the 

 wax-working age, what should we expect of 

 such bees? Little honej^ is coming in. No 

 comb need be built. There are thousands of 

 workers, and there is but little of their spe- 

 cified work. The muscles in their bodies 

 which most nervously call for action are 

 those concerned in the making of comb. The 

 poor bees cannot keep still, the hive is hot, 

 they have no inclination to fly, they crowd 

 out of the hive in ranks and keep up a 

 ceaseless making of ghost-comb on the 

 alighting-board and the wall of the hive. 



Why the worker bees in question take 

 just that form of working off their surplus 

 nervous energy would be a difficult thing to 

 assert with confidence. It might be suggest- 

 ed that this method is a safe and sane one, 

 and fulfils every requirement. It surely is 

 safer than a general flight would be. If 

 bees roamed in idle flight many would be 

 caught by birds, others by insects, others 

 be lost by various means. 



It is always safe to say that bees, what- 

 ever they do, are doing what their ancestors 

 have done from remote times. Doing thus 

 they have survived the vicissitudes of count- 

 less centuries of active life with all its dan- 

 gers. Who knows how many hapless colo 

 nies have gone into extinction because thev 



departed from the beaten path? Who knows 

 how many side paths in all those years have 

 been ventured upon, some with disaster, 

 others with success? No one knows, of 

 course, but we all know that the bees are 

 here still at their old job. It would not be a 

 foolish thing to assert that possibly the verj 

 existence of the honeybee rests upon the 

 fact that in some remote age worker bees 

 of certain ages formed the washboard habit. 

 Norwich, Conn. Allen Latham. 



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LOCAL HONEY ADVERTISING 



How a Beekeeper Sold 10,000 Pounds of Honey at 

 Retail 



It pays to advertise, is the old slogan, 

 and my advertisement gave a very good 

 profit on the investment. Every person that 

 put his eyes on the paper must have seen 

 the ad, as it was the most prominent ad 

 in the paper, at least in respect to the 

 size of the word "Honey." This ad cost 

 me about $9.00 an issue, and was shown 

 twice, followed by smaller ads. My total 

 bill for this class of advertising was $50.00, 

 and it moved for us about 10,000 pounds of 

 honey at retail. Surely this was a good in- 

 vestment. C. W. Aeppler. 



Oconomowoc, Wis. 



[With the present condition of the whole- 

 sale market for extracted honey, local ad- 

 vertising of this kind is probably the very 

 best solution of the marketing problem. Many 

 beekeepers have already disposed of large 

 crops of honey at fair prices by advertising 

 in local papers or in farm journals, and every 

 pound sold locally relieves the wholesale 

 market just that much. — Editor.] 



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