248 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. December, 



On page 19G of American Bee- WHERE SHOULD THE SECTIONS 



Keeper, 1905 "The Honey Producers' BE? 



League" is attacked in veiy bitter 

 terms by one who ha« not the courage 



of his convictions, but uses the non By Dudley B. Truman. 



de plume of a "N. B. K. A. member." 



While I believe in kicking when the TOURING THE last few years, our 

 occasion demands it, I think we should | J friend Hutchinson has done hi« 

 not kick M'hen there is nothing in best to get the Hoffman frame 



sight to kick at. relegated to the scrap-heap. For my 



The organizers of the Honey Pro- P^^^'t- ^ would willingly see the modern 

 ducers' League are deserving of great comb-honey super follow it; for the 

 praise from every bee-keeper. When comb-honey super is an abomination 

 men will put in from $10. to $600. of ^^\^^ ^^ contrary to the very principles 

 their own money to help a cause in *^^ bee-physiology. 



which they are only indirectly inter- If we watch bees to see how they 

 ested, surely they should have some make comb, we shall at once observe 

 credit, and if they are not able to do that they work from sides to sides; 

 much good, surely they will do no tliey do not start a brood-nest in one 

 harm. If they, don't succeed, it will P''ii't of the hive, then begin to store 

 be because of the opposition of such lioney in another remote part of the 

 as "A member.'' I would recommend hive, and then come back to the part 

 that "A member" become also a mem- where they started. No. they work 

 ber of the League, which ha,s already systematically. Each new comb is 

 done more than any bee-keeper's or- formed next to a pre-existing comb, 

 ganization has ever done in the way '^^is comb is then filled with brood 

 of popularizing honey. It is due to or honey; and then another comb is 

 the League that a bulletin has been started; and so on. 



published that contradicts Wiley's With a weak colony, bee-keepers 

 statement that comb honey is manu- a^apt themselves to this prtnciple, 

 factured, and also that 1905 year book and place each new brood-frame by 

 contains a contradiction. The Honey the side of a pre-existing one. But the 

 Producers' Association organized at moment the colony becomes strong 

 St. Ijouis, was practically a stock all this is altered. Instead of follow- 

 company, and only the big guns are ing up the method that has up to now 

 able to have any stock in it. It was proved so successful, the bee-keeper 

 talked at that convention that the suddenly changes his tactics and 

 manager should draw a big salary, places his sections, not at the side. 

 The Honey Producers' League is for but on top of the brood-chamber, 

 all, and each pays according to his This is all wrong, for the habit of 

 capital invested in bees or bee sup- the bees does not change. Why should 

 phes, which is very fair and the it? The bees merely go on working 

 oftcers draw no salary. Surely the i„ the place where they have started 

 officers who not only gave their money From this point of view there is no 

 freely, and are also giving their time, earthly reason why they shouldn't 

 are entitled to praise and thank-s t ^i „ ' 



from all bee-keepers. We ough? to '" *^^ T"?".,"^ ","'"' *^^ '^'^"^ ^^■ 

 encourage them, 'and show that we Z^^^ Z}"';:^ ^^' "^"^'^ "^ '''' '"^^^ 

 appreciate their efforts. I am a • ' .f ^f ! ^*"^ "'?™ ^"^ ^^ ^" workmg 

 member of both the League and the "iv T^' ^'^"' •''^" '''" ^^5^' 



N. B. K. A. and expect to continue ?'? '""'* ^"^ "^ ^" ^^'"^ ^"P«^ ^n<i 

 ^ exited to continue g^art a nest there." But why should 



Williarasfield. 111., Nov 14 1905 ^^T'' /^ S^^^. "'"^^ ^^""""^ *^^ ""^^ "^^* 



' ' ^^- why should they start the new nest 



.<T . ~. ~ , i» a super rather than in a brand 



Laziness is like molasses, sweet new hive? That they may by the 

 and stKky." -Josh Billing s. .skill of the bee-keeper be coaxed 



.■T*. • I, \ T "'*^ doing so. I admit; but it is not 



It IS human to err, but devilish to natural. You might just as well ex- 

 brag on.it."-Josh Billings. pect bees in the trunk of a tree to 



