"Bee-Keepers Need the Scientist,"  says Arthur C. Miller in the Bee-Keepers' Review. It is too often the case that a beekeeper of very limited experience puts that limited experience against the conclusions of the ablest scientist, rating the investigations of the scientist as something misty and unreal. —Mar 12, 1903. American Bee Journal

BECAUSE of the nature of his occupation, the beekeeper must be a scientist, if he would be successful, whether he likes it or not, and every real beekeeper is a scientist although he may not know it. He is constantly putting questions to Nature and demanding an answer. His work leads him into the fields of botany, physics, chemistry, physiology, animal behavior and even geology; and the deeper he explores in such fields the better beekeeper he becomes, but best of all the more happiness he finds in life. Since we are all students of science, every reader of Gleanings should carefully read and study ... —Dec 1923. Gleanings in Bee Culture.

... bee-keeper-scientists. I think it is risky to have bee scientists who do not have a close relationship with beekeeping! —1990. The Honey Producer: A Magazine of the American Honey Producers Association

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