THE BEE-KEEPERS, REVIEW. 



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took thoni to saw it up for a hive, if 

 tlioy had a foot-power .^aw, how lonj; 

 it toolv to nail it to^etlipr and paint it. 

 etc.. and decided tliat the iiiakeis and 

 sellers of hives and supplies were ac- 

 tually fieeciufi- their custouiers. I had 

 (juite a talk recently with Krnest Hoot 

 on this point. As I have mentioned 

 elsewhere, the Koots hav(> tludr busi- 

 ness perfectly systendzed. They know 

 exactly what it costs them to produce 

 ^ioods in each and all of their different 

 departments; and Mr. Hoot told me 

 that, upon an average, they were ob- 

 lijied to add S5 per cent to the actual 

 cost for what are usually termed 

 "overhead expenses." That is. for 

 taxes, interest on money invested. 

 w(»ar and tear on tools and machinery, 

 insurance, office-help, lights, etc. He 

 said it was tlie usual practice of manu- 

 facturers to add IdO per cent for these 

 expenses. The manufacturer who 

 would ignore them, and base his profits 

 upon the apparent actual cost of pro- 

 duction would soon go to the wall. 

 If the bee-keeper has the time, can 

 buy lumber advantageously, and has 

 some power to cut up his lumber, it is 

 likely that he may in some instances 

 make his Inves more cheaply than he 

 ran buy them, but let him go into tie 

 business of making them for sale, g(» 

 into it on a large scale, and he will 

 soon find that other factors appear of 

 which he had not even dreamed. 



coin can be slipped iti out of sight. 

 The pressure of the cardboards holds 

 the coin in place. 



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HOW TO SEND A COIN BY MAIL. 



Take a piece of cardboard, or stiaw- 

 board. a little smaller than the envel- 

 ope that is to 1)0 used, and make a 

 longitudinal slit in one side of the 

 strawboai-d. That is, start out as 

 though you were going to split the 

 cardboard in two. longitudinally, thus 

 making two thinner pieces out of the 

 one. Make this opening about the cen- 

 ter of one edge, enlarging it until the 



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An illustration of how out-apiaries 

 may help to make bee-keeiting more 

 prolitabh' was given me recently while 

 visiting at Mr. Hingham's. in Farwell, 

 Michigan. Farwell is located upoti 

 high, sandy soil, and the honey crop 

 there last year was ligld— about 20 

 pounds per colony. Clare, only four 

 miles away, is lowei-, and the soil is 

 clay, and bee-keep(>rs in that locality 

 enjoyed an excelleid harvest. This 

 year it may be Farwell's turn to have 

 a good crop. An apiary divided be- 

 tween the two localities would almost 

 double the opportunities for success. 



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THE VAI^UE OF A PLAN. 



How few begin life with a definite 

 plan. They take up whatever employ- 

 ment seems most convenient or desir- 

 able, and drift from one thing to an- 

 other. A man should early decide 

 what is to be his life-work, and then 

 plan accordingly. We ought to get 

 all of the enjoyment possible out of 

 life, and there is no more effective 

 method than in being of some benefit 

 to our fellow mortals. Our success 

 in this direction will be largely in pro- 

 portion to the perfection of our plans. 

 If we have some special object In 

 view, and plan for its accomplishment, 

 each day, month and year will fit us 

 more perfectly for success. There are 

 not oidy life-plans, but plans for short- 

 er seasons, for a year, or even for 

 a day. We may be compelled to change 

 our plans, better this than to have no 

 plan. With a plan we are working in- 

 telligently, making one act help an- 

 other, making all of our acts fit to- 

 gether into a perfect whole. The acts 

 of a man with a plan are like a well 



