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bees, and establishing out-apiaries, 

 and some of tliese men tell me tliat 

 they have had such a step in contem- 

 plation for some time, but relatives 

 and friends have discouraged them— 

 cautioned them against putting all 

 their capital into bees. A farmer puts 

 all his capital into his Inisiness, so 

 does a merchant, or a manufacturer. 

 Wliy not a bee-keeper? Of course, 

 tliese ventures must be made intelli- 

 gently. Some have said: '"Don't risk 

 all of the eggs in one basket," but 

 the most successful men have "put all 

 the eggs in one basket, and then 

 watched that basket." 



The National Convention goes to Los 

 Angeles this year. See official notice 

 in another column. California has 

 wanted the convention for a long time, 

 and the holding of the G. A. R. meeting 

 in that State this year gives the desir- 

 ed rates. California has every prospect 

 now of a good crop, and, with low rates 

 on the railroads, and good crops in the 

 West, the prospects are very flattering 

 for a grand meeting. The distance is 

 too far to expect very many from the 

 far East. but. from the Mississippi 

 valley, westward, there ought to be a 

 grand turn out. The meeting will be 

 held in Blanchard's Music Hall, 233 

 South Broadway. Other particulars 

 will be given as they develop. By the 

 M-ay, E. K. Root has promised to show 

 his pictures with the stereopticon. 

 "Bee-Keeping from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific, as seen through the Camera 

 and the Stereopticon." is. I believe, the 

 title given tljis entertainment, and it 

 very fairly describes it. Of course, 

 many bee-keepers in the East have 

 seen these pictures, and heard Mv. Root 

 describe them, but they will be entire- 

 ly new to those in the far West, and 

 they are certainly a treat to one who 

 has not seen them. 



Mr. Brodbeck writes me that the 

 Californians expect to use the evening 

 of the first day in giving a reception 

 to the visitors. 



Economy in cutting up lumber was 

 one of the interesting things that I 

 saw practiced recently in Medina, 

 Ohio. The man who cuts up the lum- 

 ber can save or waste his day's wages 

 many times over by tlie way in which 

 he cuts up lumber. The lumber used 

 costs about .$28 a tliousand, but, by 

 care in cutting out the knots, the hives 

 are made of lumber that is so clear 

 of knots that if purchased of that 

 quality, for that purpose alone, it 

 would cost $80 a thousand. In making 

 a hive, several lengths of pieces are 

 used. The sides, ends, top-bars, end- 

 bars, bottom-bars for the frames, the 

 ends to the section-holders, etc., are 

 each a different length from the others. 

 When the next length to be cut off for 

 a side contains a loose knot the work- 

 man decides whether he will cut an 

 end to a hive, or end-bars for frames, 

 or end-bars to section-holders. Some- 

 times a knot is left in a short piece 

 that is to be used for the ends to sec- 

 tion-holders, for instance, and strips 

 sawed off each side of the knot. In 

 short, the cutting is so done that about 

 all of the lumber that is wasted is the 

 loose knots. Mr. Root told me that it 

 Avas only by just such close, careful 

 and economical management, this look- 

 ing closely after the waste in what 

 might be termed details, that it was 

 possible to make money in the manu- 

 facturing business. 



The cost of manufacturing and sell- 

 ing goods is not so well understood by 

 some as it ought to be. Many have 

 figured up how nnich it cost to buy 

 enough lumber for a hive, how long it 



