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commended but requesting addition of under the present management, will, 

 "practical" suggestions. Because such for two reasons, not correlate the guid- 

 additions have been refused, the arti- ance to nature into dollars and cents: 

 cles have not been published. Many I# j n thcse days of j ntense competi- 

 so-called practical papers have been is- t ion, it requires skill to make money 

 sued in those magazines that are to in any p i iase f natU re, which means 

 inexperienced people deceiving in their lhat one must be a specialist. We can- 

 allurements and fanciful assertions. not i n f orm the specialist so well as can 

 Several instances have come to my his spec ial magazine, 

 knowledge where confiding people have 2 In valuable information, in the 

 moved to a country home, and have mentaJ recreation that soothes w 

 lost all or nearly a 11 of their savings ne and {n hel fulness toward tl / e 

 which they invested in some of these a iation of nat ' ure as a relief from 

 schemes Is this what our corre- t he money-seeking business or profes- 

 spondent wants. sion> thJs magazine is ff er ing better 



Money can be mack in keeping bees, guidance than any other, and will con- 

 but that is for the professional apiarist, tinue to do so. 

 who reads such a magazine as "Glean- 

 ings in Bee Culture" that professedly 



and actually helps in the business of We sha11 clln g t0 the God of out " 



keeping bees for pecuniary profit. doors '> let others take care of mammon. 



There are poultry magazines that go We never dld llke hash— in magazines, 



straight to the business question of Some thln g s do not mix wel1 -. A llttle 



housing and caring for eggs and chick- knowledge is a dangerous thing. \\ e 



ens so as to make the work profitable. sha11 never induce our readers to spend 



Men have become rich in raising violets their savings of the city on bullfrogs 



and lettuce, but they did their reading and skunks in the country, 



in magazines specially prepared for the But come; let us go take a walk, 



florist and the gardner. You are right — "it is perfectly delight- 



If you have the talents of a lawyer, ful to spend one's time with nature 

 be a lawyer. If you move to the coun- drinking in the perfume from the flow- 

 try for the enjoyment of nature, do not ers > and watching the birds and bees 

 become an amateur money-making and a11 other g rand and glorious scenes 

 apiarist, florist, poultryman, bullfrog- which ^ God has given us out in the 

 ger, mushroomer or skunkite. Have a open. — h.. b. B. 

 few chickens if you like them, or even 



a tub with a bullfrog if it affords you c . ,, , ... , 



, , . • i f 3 , i / i Since the above was written, we have 



mental stimulus and pleasure — but do , , , ... , u V 



, , j . .. . i had an example cited where the recrea- 



not keep a goose and expect it to lay ,. , v . , . . 



u J tion may be carried to an extreme, 



a golden esrsr. . J . , . ' 



* . ° . , where common sense was lacking. 



There is not one particle more sense s a correspondent: 



in your thus devoting time to the earn- ilT , , . ., ,, 



ing of an "honest penny" than for the J k , n0 ^ ° f T a man 7 th ? "T ,n 



successful bee keeper or poultryman P ar V° f ^Tt, ]e ™7 W 10 deVOted i ?," 



, , r u 1 j • his time to the study of mosses, while 



to get a few books and magazines on ::..", ■ u- <t u *. » 



,11 i • . ,i v & . . his wife took in washing. I bet you 



the law, and going to the city to set up nractical " 



as an amateur lawyer so as to add an that uas P ractlcaL 



"honest penny" to the bee business or 



to buy a patent chicken food. ( Such is the appreciation of moss 



Every person has the God-given study by humanity! Perhaps this 



power to do something well. He may specialist was a teacher of botany and 



do a little of other things and find in- the salary so small that his wife had 



terest and pleasure in many things, to "take in washing." The world pays 



But he can besl get his "honest penny" its professional students of nature in a 



in his ONE thing. manner to make it not surprising that 



This magazine, so long as it remains such situations exist!) 



