THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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farm i^/agon or delivery rig, or 

 thinks it too far beneath him to be 

 seen leading a horse or driving a 

 cow. We will never attain a high 

 standard of real citizenship until 

 we change our ideals in regard to 

 such things. 



But it is not amiss to state some 

 of the other side — which is that 

 the desire for neat clean clothes 

 and an attractive person are always 

 in. good place. Our clothes have a 

 very vital effect on our character 

 and we can with a little care look 

 neat whether we are pitching 

 manure or digging a ditch. Young 

 folks back from college need not 

 be told that they are too snobbish, 

 when they want to wear well ap- 

 pearing though serviceable clothing 

 at their work. The danger is in the 

 idea that work itself is beneath 

 one. Let us always be farmers but 

 never forget that a farmer can be 

 an artist and a scientist at the 

 same time and the more of a scient- 

 ist he is the better farming will he 

 do. In fact it takes a man of many 

 scientific attainments to manipulate 

 all the m:iny machines an up-to- 

 date farmer needs. W. F. 



We copy from a private letter 

 of Editor Baldwin under date of 

 March 21st, as follows: 



"The orange honey crop is just 

 closing in now, and a bumper it 

 bids fair to be, too. I am right in 

 the midst of queen rearing also, 

 and you can imagine I have my 

 hands full. I suppose you are hard- 

 ly overhauling your bees yet? I 

 have an apiary at Trevose, Pa., but 

 have not yet heard how the bees 

 wintered there. 



"How do yours seem to have 

 wintered? I hope they will come 

 through in fine shape. How many 

 yards have you now? I have only 

 ONE criticism to offer on your edi- 

 torials and management of the Re- 

 view; you do not tell us enough 

 about YOURSELF. Of course, in 

 general, that is a fine fault; but 

 in the case of a successful and 

 practical bee-man like yourself, it 

 may be a virtue carried too far." 

 .Dear Mr. Baldwin: We thank you 

 very much for your encouraging 

 words, especially will we take cog- 

 nizance of your criticism relative 

 to my telling so little of our own 



affairs in the past and will try and 

 keep the readers of the Review 

 betitr pe/sted on our management of 

 the bees during the months to come 

 than in the past. This will be done 

 both by word and picture. 



The spring of 1914 has been a 

 very odd one in the South, espec- 

 ially in the Peninsula. In February, 

 and much of January the tempera- 

 ture, while at no time dangerously 

 low, was on the average lower 

 Ihan usual. Bees bred right along, 

 however, owing to many days that 

 they could fly, and the fact, that 

 In the more southern portions, they 

 could obtain forage almost all Pall 

 and early Winter. In general, it is 

 fafe to say that bees went into 

 Winter stronger in bees than usual, 

 and came out ditto. While last 

 summer was dry, and so a trying 

 year for bee-men so far as honey 

 was concerned, if they depended on 

 certain forage plants, still it was 

 au excellent year in the East Coast 

 section, in the orange sections, and 

 in the North West, where the Tup- 

 elo is produced. The season for 

 storing Orange Honey is just com- 

 ing to a close here, and a bumper 

 crop it will be, too. The quality 

 was never finer. You may ask 

 "What? Is the quality of orange 

 blossom honey not always alike, in 

 a given locality?" To which we 

 reply "No, because it is an art, to 

 secure Orange Blossom Honey that 

 is ALL Orange Blossom honey.'' 

 Editor E. R. Root, in Current Glean- 

 ings has an excellent article on 

 Orange Honeys in Florida, and 

 makes a very lucid statement and 

 exposition of the Orange honey and 

 its production. Orange Blossom 

 honey is and will always be a rare 

 article, as Mr. H. W. Hawks of 

 Hawkes Park, Florida has well 

 stated.. For a crop can be. se- 

 cured on an average only about 

 every other year. Last year 

 v/es a good year, however, and 

 this year again. That is unusual 

 two good years in succession. But 

 as for flavor and aroma, My! It 

 cannot be surpassed. 1 have tasted 

 honeys from all over the world, 

 and am ready to stand by Orange 

 Blossom honey to , the last. It 

 speaks for itself however, and needs 

 no champion. E. G. B. 



