BEE-CULTURE IN GENERAL.
BY G. W. DEMAREE
THE modern system of beekeeping is not the work of any one person, but is the result of the aggregated labor and brain work of hundreds of persons all over the wide world. Apiarists, as a general thing, are men of broad views, possessing a large share of public spirit; they freely give to the public all of their hardly acquired knowledge, and by means of their pens their light is spread from sea to sea.
When we take into consideration the fact that the present advanced state of bee-culture, of which most of us feel a just and reasonable pride, has been reached as it were “step by step,” how important it is that all should strive to add something to the ever-swelling tide of knowledge.
It is a fact to be deplored - especially by us older ones - that the chief hindrance to the rapid advancement of the science of apiculture in the past bas been the disagreeable and unreasonable bickerings of weak and selfish men, to whose selfish interests all things must bend or be broken.
For the life of me, I am unable to see why bee-culture should be beset by a greater amount of pure “cussedness” than all other industries have to endure, and yet it really seems that such is its fate. I expect better things, however.
THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST
VOL. I. MAY, 1883. No. 1.
SALEM, MASS.
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As the old soldiers shoulder their crutches and show how battles were won, so the veterans in apicultural science, with their pens give us the rich fruits of their experience and observation, and what they have to communicate is valuable and well worth knowing.
It also lends an additional charm when the paper is conducted by one of long and varied experience, for then much that is irrelevant is consigned to the waste basket and the readers are furnished with nothing but the real cream of the matter.
THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST
VOL. X. FEBRUARY, 1892. No. 2.
Wenham, Mass.
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