All of our bee journals are published simply to tell of new things, of those not before known, or, at least, not generally known. From whence come these facts ? From experience ; from experimenting. Scattered all over the land are bee-keepers. The trouble with the average bee-keeper is that he is likely to choose some one of these plane and carry it out with his whole apiary. No comparative work is done. If he gets a good crop with the plan adopted he reports it as a success. Perhaps some other plan might have been more successful.

It is not every bee-keeper that is “cut out'' for an experimenter. It needs a person of a judicial cast of mind, one that is perfectly willing, so speak, that an experiment shall prove the truth. Too many of us are inclined to make a decision first, and then go to work and try to prove what we already believe. This will not answer. An experimenter ought to be wholly disinterested in the results, that is, be willing that an experiment proves either side of the question. 

It costs money, time and bees to experiment. The average bee-keeper cannot afford to spare much of these without a reasonable supposition that there will be a money return. If he desires to experiment he is confronted with the query, will it pay? Unless there are fair prospects of a money return, it must be abandoned. The foregoing are not the only reasons why it would be advisable to have competent beekeepers employed by the government to take charge of experimental apiaries.

THE BEE-KEEPERS’ REVIEW. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JULY 10. 1893 .

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