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Show BAD SEASON FOR HONEY MAKERS Bee Keepers' President Tells Some Troubles of His'Craft. "The honey, crop of Colorado has practically prac-tically been a failure." said J. V. Harris of Grand Junction. Colo., at the Cullen yesterday. Mr. Harris is president of the National Bee Keepers' association and has made a success of bee keeping from the'finanelal end of the proposition. "A bad season comes occasionally, and we have to stand for it. When we do have a good season, however, we live on Easy street in the low numbers and have honey on both sides of buttered toast. You see. the little fellows with whom we associate daily teach the lesson of patience. pa-tience. As how? As this a-way: It takes a colony of bees three months of work and nine months of preparation to lay aside enough honey to be worth at a very high average $10. A strong colony of bees consists of Stf.OuO individuals. "Now. it is Just like first lessons in arithmetic ar-ithmetic to calculate how long it would take one lone, lorn bee working in a union bv himself to amass a bank account of $10. The answer Is 50,000 years if he did not become baldheaded and spavined In that time, and had no bad seasons. Add to the above for dry and cold seasons 10,-000 10,-000 years, and you have a conservative idea of what each bee in a colony does. "To state it another way: Each bee in one year earns a fifty-thousandth part of $10. which is .0002 of a cent. So, if by putting put-ting their infinitesimal units of industry together they can amass what in bee finance must look like Rockefeller's and organ's millions rolled into one pile, why should we, their associates and coworkers co-workers and co-sharers, lose our grip When a single bad season overtakes us? Bo we Just don't, but gird our loins and take a fresh hold on the hump of fortune." |