The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
suggestions to Persons Who Contemplate
Engaging In the Business OF Beekeeping-
Items of Interest.
Commencing With Bees.

ChtcGq0 Tunes, at reacnlng success ii
keeping bees is undoubtedly true
That more money has been spent il
some localities for colonies of bees
hives. honey-eXtractors, boxes, ant
frames than the purchasers ever real
lie for honey sold in the market or
eaten in their own houses is also I'M
aoubtedly true. Every few years there
Is honey craze that affects entire
communities. The inventor of some
newfangled beehive obtains patent
On it and advertises to sell territorial
rights. Enterprising agents scour the
country, and by means of plausible
talk and tempting circulars induce
many persons to engage in the business
pf keeping bees. Several enthusiasts
have written books on the profits of
bee-culture which are misleading. Oc-
:asionally a magazine writer prepares
an article on this subject which secures
! million readers and gains many
thousands of converts to the belief
that almost any person can gain fort
une by keeping bees. Paragraphs in
newspapers, which become sweeter
every time. they are copied, state
how some crippled soldier, lone widow,
Dr. friendless orphan secured colony
of bees, and in the course of u few
years had an apiary of thousand
hives and an income of a retired capt.
talist. The press is always ready to
chronicle success in any department.
Of husbandry. 1t is responsible for
many of the failures in fruit-raising,
sugarmaking, poultry breeding, and
bookkeeping, because it does not give
the number and extent of the failures
that occur. 1t presents the bright side
Of every portion of farm life. The
local paper will inform the public if
one of its subscribers quadrupled his
colonies in year and lifted mort
gage with the money received from
the sale bf honey. 1t will make no
mention of the losses sustained by an
other person living in the same town.
That many persons fail in keeping
bees is not wonderful. They 60 into
the business with no knowledge OF 1t
derived from books, observation, or
experience. They are not adapted to
it by nature and do not take kindly to
it. They are not situated where they
can keep bees to advantage, and they |
have little or no time to devote to |
them. They read that Bookkeeping
pays and they are DESTROYS of making
money without work. They should
not expect to succeed in business
that requires knowledge, skill. care,
and watchfulness, as well as favor
able location. That many persons
have found Bookkeeping both pleasant
and profitable is certain. Not only
men but women and youths have sue
ceeded in keeping bees. In Germany
boys and girls manage apiaries and
ierive large incomes from them. That
many persons in this country would
ind the keeping of bees pleasant
md profitable employment seems GER
tain. They should, however, exercise
caution and discretion in commencing
t. They should acquire considerable
from books before they
purchase their first colony of bees.
The literature pertaining to bees is
very extensive. Among the best and
most practical treatises on the subject
re Langstroth's "Hiye and Honey
See, y "Quimby's New Bee Excepting,
looks "Bee-Keeper's Guide" Kings {
'Bee-Keeper's Text Book" and bees I
nd Honey" by Thomas G. Newman
f this city, who is publisher of The '
Bee Journal. Either of the
bove named works will furnish the
lformation that is essential to the
ovice in Bookkeeping. By carefully {
tudying it he can form an opinion as ]
, whether he is adapted to the bust !
ess of keeping bees and is willing 10
Ike the proper steps in order to be- i
ONE successful apiarian. He will ,
,arn that something is required of I
i'm besides buying a hive of bees and J
citing box to keep them in. |
1t is stated by those who have bees, +
ives, and books to sell that bees can i
kept in city, village, or country to t
Icellent advantage. This may be L
ne if an expert keep the bees. There
e locations particularly adapted to
e successful keeping OF bees rs there a
e locations specially suited to other a
dustries. A good location for bees il
ay be determined by an abundance S
flowers yielding honey during sew C
al months in the year. Considerable il
Jay be done in raising crops on L
Irm where bees are kept that furnish d
oney that Can be gathered. STILL o
lere is little evidence to show that o
lere is any profit in raising flowers
IMPLY to produce honey. Buckwheat "
a profitable crop to raise for produc- {,
g grain, and the honey furnished by o
e blossoms will enable bees to fill the s,
,mbs in their hives. White clover is N
sslrable in every pasture. as 1t fur .
shes excellent food for stock. while q
yields large amount of honey. +,
any other plants can be raised in a o.
cid or garden that will return profit Is
their production and besides yield
considerable amount of honey. Still, =,
&c ee-keeper must rely principally :,
trees and minor plants of spontane- II u
is production for honey. In this part Il
the country the linden, or Eastwood, ~ =,
Gust, tulip, willow, and box elder " "
ees yield the largest amount of ..
ney. An apiary established near %
rye collections of these trees will W
We great advantage over one To-
ted on treeless prairie or near IN
'ods consisting of trees that do not Ia
)ssom or whose trees contain little or I'll
hOney In newly settled nortionS nt