THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



91 



so mch better understood by nearly all 

 bee-keepers than it was a few years ago 

 that we feel much encouraged in eventu- 

 ally overcoming other troubles as we have 

 this. 



Each year brings some new methods 

 whereby our business is placed on a more 

 reliable basis than it formerly was, enabl- 

 ing us to produce honey cheaper than we 

 ever could before. Still, we have some 

 dark clouds of losses and disappointments 

 hovering over us. I have seen many 

 through which it was almost impossible 

 to see a ray of silver lining; but as the 

 mariner's compass will guide the ship 

 safely through ocean storms, so will con- 

 tinual perseverance lead you on and on 

 through these trying hours until a clear 

 unclouded sunset welcomes you to a land 

 of rest. 



It is not so very many years ago that 

 bee-keeping as a specialty was in its 

 infancy, and bee-keeping as a sole busi- 

 ness was very seldom attempted. The 



solving of the wintering problem for 

 northern bee-keepers, the overcoming of 

 foul brood, increased facilities for trans- 

 portation, methods of controlling increase 

 whereby one man may manage several 

 apiaries, and, most important, a steadily 

 increasing demand for honey, all these are 

 rapidly leading men to make of bee- 

 keeping a sole business. Many men will 

 always keep a few bees as a recreation, 

 others will follow it as a specialty, but no 

 man who has a love for the business, is 

 adapted to it, has a good location, or will 

 secure one, and stock it with a good strain 

 of bees in sufficient numbers, and adopt 

 the right kind of hives, implements 

 and methods, need fear to make of bee- 

 keeping his sole business for life. The 

 prospects for bee-keeping as a business 

 were never brighter for the man who will 

 follow it in a business-like manner. 



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