Bee-Culture (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bee-Culture The advice here given, though it concerns chiefly beginners who contemplate taking up bee-culture as a business, applies also to those who merely wish to keep a few hives of bees as a hobby and to work them successfully. Any person may become a beekeeper, but to become a bee-master the aspirant must possess more than an ordinary share of patience and perseverance, and also be prepared to give the subject of bee-culture his most careful study. He should be discerning and resourceful, have good judgment, with keen insight to anticipate and be swift to take advantage of all circumstances likely to lead to success - in short, he should possess just such qualities as would contribute to his prosperity in any line of life. Procrastination is a serious imperfection under all circumstances, and especially so in bee-culture: bee-work cannot be put off without great loss, it must be done when needed, in fact, it should be anticipated - a bee-master always keeps a little ahead of his bees. It must be distinctly understood that successful bee-farming cannot be carried on without a good deal of work and close application, but, as the work to a bee-master is both interesting and congenial, it is never irksome. All bee-masters are enthusiasts in their calling, hence, in a great measure, their success. It may be said of those adapted for beekeeping that once a beekeeper always a beekeeper, for about the work there is undoubtedly, in spite of the stings, a charm which, once experienced, never loses its attractions. Bee-culture is a rapidly progressive industry, new methods and appliances are constantly coming to the front, and things that are new to-day may be obsolete to-morrow. It therefore behoves the beekeeper to keep himself posted in everything going on in the beekeeping world through the excellent bee literature now at command. Who should not keep Bees. All beginners suffer more or less from the effects of bee-stings, but in most cases the bad effects wear off gradually as the system becomes inoculated against the poison, until, finally, little more inconvenience is felt from a sting than would be caused by the prick of a needle. In rare instances, however, there are to be found people who suffer so severely that a sting is positively dangerous to them: their system never seems to become immune to the poison. It is scarcely necessary to say that such persons should not keep bees. Again, there are individuals too nervous to go among their bees without being clad in armour, as it were, from head to feet. There are many such who have kept bees for a long time, and yet have never been able to get over their nervousness. Such people should not keep bees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.