During the last fifteen years men with new methods of management and modern equipment have been rapidly superseding the picturesque old beekeepers.
If not already done the beekeeper should at once make his final preparations towards a successful wintering of bees.
The old fashioned beekeeper with his hybrid bees, kept in immovable hives, logs or boxes, did not derive much profit from his bees.
The practical beekeeper must decide at the beginning of the honey season whether he wishes to produce extracted honey, comb honey or merely to increase the number of his colonies.
The price of queens will be fifty cents for one, and not more than three will be furnished to each beekeeper.
There are three appendices (i) suppliers of bees and books, (ii) pesticides and (iii) an example of a pollination contract between crop growers and beekeepers.
Awareness of the new pollinator among growers, beekeepers and custom pollination companies is usually accomplished through technical and popular articles.
There is no regulation restricting beekeepers from putting sections on hives for the collection of clover honey.
