The Plagues of Beekeeping

Now what would you describe as the plagues of beekeeping? Movable frame hives, honey extractors, comb foundation, artificial swarming, practical queen-rearing, the use of smoke in opening hives, feeding sugar syrup, keeping down the drones, supplying built combs to avoid wax production, and generally everything which modern beekeeping has devised? That is the statement made - in two pages of warning, condemning the "immoral" practices of progressive beekeeping, by a facetious writer in our contemporary magazine, Apiculteur, the oldest bee magazine extant. If it was written for a hoax, it is well gotten up. But the man appears to be in dead earnest. What next?

[from the ABJ, February 1921]
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