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Show BEES EDITOR LEADER- Knowing the interest you are taking in the welfare of this people, I take the liberty of sending you a few of my thoughts, with the idea to live and help to live in this land, flowing with milk and honey, which we have heard about years ago. We have had the milk alone long enough. A few have had a taste of honey, and they can testify to its sweetness. There is plenty of honey as well as milk in this valley, if we had those little fellows out gathering for us; they will pay much better than a cow, take the year round. In the first place, there is no herd bills to pay, no feed to cut and stack and feed out in the winter; they will go just where they please and not be stopped; they are what is called the busy bee; they work early and late. I have known them to be out working moonlight nights. They will get honey even if they have to steal it. There is a great deal that could be written on bee culture, if we would only take an interest in it. Yours respectfully, GEO. HIBBARD, Apiarist. |