Putnam patriot., 1915-08-27

would barely make living, in others he could put Into the bank from Sl000 to 5000
 One had better not try to make a living from bees alone in locality where the sumae does not grow. He would be almost doomed to faiiure.
 Where sumac alone is depended upon il would be perfectly safe to depend en- tirely upon the bees, but the income, though certain, would not be large As this plant, sumae, is the great honey producer of Connecticut and k widely scattered over the state from now on my statements should be un- derstood as dealing with keeping bees where sumae is a source or honey.
 Though beekeeping is business that can be combined with other pursuits, general farming is not one of | those pursuits. Many of those pres ent may wish me 10 say otherwise, l but according to my view the average farmer had better let someone else produce his honey for him. There is an old notion that lis hard to kill, namely, bees aiessomething that will take care of themselves and the farmer need only get the honey when he chooses. This was partial truth when bees were kept in. box hives. All that the farmer had 10 do was to hive such swarms as he happened To mo- tice and then in the fall of the year "take up'' some of the hives. But the l farmer now feels that he must buy a modern hive, thinking to run that modern hive ias his father or grand. 1 father ran the boNhive. Result, fail ure. 1 say here, as l have said else where, If farmer must keep bees let him keep them Tn hoxhives just as of old Both he and others will be the gathers.
 Why, even though a farmer might wish to keep bees in the modern way is he doomed 10 faihure2 For just this reason, those very times when the bees will require the most careful al. tention tare the times when the far mer can give them no attention. One cannot let his corn and hay crops be sacrificed for the bees.
 Il might be stated here, for the bene ] fit of those who are not fully verSed in l modern apieulture, that an apiarist
 today expects to get from 75 To loo pounds of honey per hive while in the | old days farmer was delighted to gel ] l0 pounds Modern hives have made ] this possible, but modern hives ran on 1 ancient principles are not going to give even 10 pounds to the hive. ltis only by combining modern methods with modern hives that the a9taTist oI today gets big results. u was thai combination that enabled pr. Miller i the sage ol Niorengo, 10 get 4o2 sections ol honey from one coleny two yeals ago. He averaged 267 sections per colony, and he was s0 years of age al that lime. IL is that combination that has enabled me this present season to make some colonies pass the loo sec lion mark
 Poultry is a possible business te combine with beekeeping. Modern poultry raising ealls for lively work for many weeks of the year, but the bulk of thet work falls most heavily in the early spring months when bees de- mand only small fraction oi the time. When June and July come and the bees demand more than half the time, the chickens are large enough 10 re- quire less attention If one can like both the keeping of poultry and the keeping of bees then this should oe an ! ideal combination. But rare Is the man or woman who can serve both masters. lie ls paests aaEs .o Aa.e sne