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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



.Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $1.00 A YEAR, 

 w. z. HUTCHINSON. Editor and Proprietor. 



VOL. XVL FLINT, MICHIGAN, FEB. 10, 1903. NO. 2. 



NEATNESS AND ORDER. 



BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 





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They are Profitable Traits in the Management of an 

 Apiary. Even the Artistic may be Indulged. 



So often iu my travels have I seen 

 apiaries and lioney-houses that made 

 my heart ache, that I wish to make a 

 plea for cleanliness, neatness and or- 

 derliness; yes, even for the artistic 

 and the beautiful. I am the more free 

 to say this that my heart has some- 

 limes ached at the sight of my own 

 yard and lioney-house. There is no 

 business on this green earth that can 

 compare with bee-keeping from an 

 artistic standpoint, that is so capable 

 of being carried out in a beautiful 

 way. It is the poetry of agricultvu'e, 

 and it .seems almost like a desecration 

 to see hives sitting at all angles, and 

 at all points of the compass, as though 

 a team had run away, and the hives 

 h.id tumbled out of the hind end of 

 tlie wagon; to see tlie grass as high as 

 the tops of the hives and.the yard full 

 of rubbish; to see a honey-house litter- 

 ed up Avith all sorts of odds and ends, 

 and every available space piled full of 



a miscellaneous collection of "traps 

 and calamities." 



NEATNESS AND ORDER ARE PROFITABi:,E 

 IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. 



You may say that it takes time and 

 money to Iveep things neat and tidy. 

 In the beginning it does take a little 

 time and money to make an appro- 

 priate place for everything. It does 

 require a little time to always put 

 things in their places, instead of drop- 

 ping them where they are last used. 

 It does take a little time to keep the 

 grass mowed in the yard. All this is 

 admitted. But. in the end, it is time 

 saved, and, what is still more import- 

 ant, it is temper saved. A man can 

 accomplish the most woric when he is 

 in a good-natured, liappy, contented 

 frame of mind. From a dollars and 

 cents point of view, tliis kind of a 

 frame of mind is profitable. Nothing 

 is more conductive to this frame of 



