Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-10-25
BECK EEPING.
Tho Troubles OF Boe-Keepcrs In Dlllrrent
Parts OF tho World,

Iho lrouDleA OI Boe-keepcrs In Dlnt rent
Parts OF tho World.
Chicago Times.
Books on Bookkeeping are always cap
tivating. They show that tho lot Of the
apiarian is happy ono. They tell Us
that bees are industrious by nature, and
that they inherit skill They often con.
tain estimates Of the increase of colo,
nies, and Of the amount of honey each
will collect in a single season. They
rarely present any of the discourage
ments bee-kecpcrS have to contend with.
The average reader is left to believe
that there arc none. Honey literature
appears to be very sweet in other cOun-
tries. The Standard, of London, says:
Bookkeeping, like feeding fowls and
fattening pigs, seems so easy an art
that it has captivated the fancy of those
who are ever on tho lookout for some
means whereby an easy income Can bo
earned by II little toll. Books have
been written, and books are still being
written, proving with a facility which
in itself is suspicious, how ridicuously
simple matter it is to make money
out of eggs, or pork, or honey. With
gfbnoss which scorns the suggcs-
tion Uf modifying circumstances, we
are told the number of eggs which are
yearly imported from France, the
amount of bacon and hams that Gin
cnnati dispatches 10 us every autumn.
and with Il conClusvcncss that the
apiarian would fain hope to bo . rule
without any exception, ii is shown that
il one colony of bees produce one hun
dred pounds of honey-which, at 81.
per pound, is worth 7jS.-all that is
necessary in order to earn Il steady in.
come OF some hundreds of pounds is
merely to 90 on multiplying the num-
Der of hives. They cost little labor
after once being swarmed; they ocCupy
4 very small space, and beyond Il
triling cost for food during the winter
and spring, the expense of maintaining
the winged stock is almost all. Allyou
have to do so we are told-is simply
to set the bees to work, and then, after
the patient slaves have toiled all sum
mcr, to r0b'them of the results Of their
labor and sell it in market that is
ready to absorb all that is offered |
Thcol ctically, this is true enough, and
no DOUBT bee.kocpng in England is not
followed to any thing like the extent it |
might be, especially by farm laborcrs |
and country people generally. But,
practically, like fowl keeping on n |
large scale, or buying pigs at 5 shil-
lings and selling them for 60, there is
another side to the question, as the bee
masters of tho border have this
autumn discovered to their loss. A
dry season is the ruin Of the stock
raiser, and wet one of the wheat |
grower. In like manner, tho abun-
dance or scarcity of flowers means pro-
fit or loss to the apiarian, and, what is |
worse, though tho meadows revol in |
blooms, and the fields wave with corn, |
the absence of particular flower, or
its sparscncss owing to cold year, |
may damp tho hopes that were so bright |
when the year was young.
The posturino Of the hymcnopterous
nccls Is indeed ,LwovS a spbipct nf
anvietv to tbo hcr.mostcr for if be
Iivrs in n land where summer oliEc,
im,nrrnntiblv into winter and winter
orain intn summnr tbn changing son.
sons hrinr marked only nv a variation
in tbo h5ymriont llors ihc hoes will |
,r,,y rocLInSs anI dnnorting fran, tbr
S5rnviionco ofwhirb man and thn bcors
take sn mean nm advantage. viii NEGLECT
io,;nr nm storm ogoinst ,ho blns2nm. |
ioss season which in that honnv conn.,
iry y' novcr cnmcs rnmnJ This I'VE Inc.
iiSvo liz has brnn ,he cxpcricnc, Of thr
hno.mnstors !, some of onr somi-trnnir,l
onI,n;as o Agoin country which |
u,;oL, Loro L9on ot ono timH a bn,,,
naradisc may hv cultiyotion become
ihn;r l., ,tornG Main wovinp viii
cnrn 10 ~ tho boncv.winnors Ms barren
os Josort s,J ihn lonso or , fnw
woots will tnrn n meodow in which
a., woI,nw IN noctor AVID nnlInn into
tooIirg,nrornd olmost nc foodlnss IN
nIoc;"rr Unnce tbo rerossitv-a me-
ScoSsitv known to CrlsuS and tho old
] onior; of shiI,in% them from nloro
~ nIoco m % occorIinr t6 ,hr observation-disclosures
os o1 ,h" 'Co ,,o"r IT, a,n;omt timos thn hecs
VI ,,orn rm' SnMnoIIy borno frnm Arhoio to
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Sin;liams Lsvo hrnn in tbe habit Of ear.
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