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coiub honey, anil shook such t-olonii'S 

 as had so uiuch as an v^ii lu a tiiU'iMi 

 (•(•11. while I looUoil on. asked iiueslions 

 and took pholuKriipli^- -^* noon we ate 

 our dinner in the honey liouse, usin^ 

 a hive comt lor a table, while erates 

 of sections answered !di- seats. Sueii 

 days as these make life worth the liv- 

 in,^. 



At Uie home apiary .ire [7tO colonies, 

 devott'd mostly to extracted honey 

 prothiction. There is also another out- 

 apiary of 100 colonies devoted to tlie 

 production of extracted honey. 



Mr. 'I'ownsend is certainly one ol' 

 the best bee-keepers that I liave visit- 

 (>d, an(i he is puttintr liis whole thou^lit 

 and aMeniion to the successful man- 

 agement of lar^e nund>ers of bees 

 with the least possible labor. As 1 

 ( xjiecl that ho will eventually write 

 a series of articles for the Review. 1 

 will not fori>siall him liy describing: 

 some of his plant, and methods. 



HOW ICXPRKIKNCE AIDS A MAN. 



'O.vperience aids a man by yivinf^ 

 him a jjau.ce or measure with which 

 to compare facts that are brought to 

 his notice. Suppose a man who has 

 never travehnl, nor rtad very much, 

 starts out upon a journey; he forms 

 imperfect and exaj;.ij;erated idi^as re- 

 Karding many things that he sees, sim- 

 ply because he has never seen nor 

 heard of nuich. He has had no ex- 

 lierience. A\'hen u man has had half 

 a dozen exiK'riences similar to 

 the one he i.s now having, he has 

 something to .judge and measure it by. 

 A very young man sent out to report 

 the good things said at a convention, 

 could not be expected to make n de- 

 siralile report. He Avould not posses 

 the experience by which to measure, 

 gauge, and recognize the good points. 



Often a man needs to see other 

 countries in ordei' to truly appreciate 



his own. How often it is ii stranger, 

 sonu' traveler, who discttvers a won- 

 derfid possibility in a region of conn- 

 try. Men who h;id lived there all their 

 lives, failed to recognize the weiilth, 

 lying, undevtdoped, at their feet. They 

 hnd no otlier knowledge or »>xi)erience 

 by M'hich to menHiu'e it. 



It is in this line that be<'-keepers 

 are often benetited by attc'udlng con- 

 ventions. The.v (ire able to gain soun* 

 iiew facts and features, by which to 

 compare tliose they already possess 

 Tli«> bee-keeper who always stays at 

 home can never reach the sviccess that 

 he might, did he get out in the world 

 and mingle with hiw brother bee-keep- 

 t>rs. The conditions in Califorida are 

 (piite different from those in the East, 

 and it is well wctrth the while of the 

 eastern man to investigate them and 

 compare them with thos(> of tlie East. 

 To say nothing of the pleasures of the 

 trip, It ma.v pay nniny a I«H>-keeper in 

 dollars and cents, to attend the coming 

 convention in Los Angeles. It Is not 

 likely tluit many from the far East 

 will think lluit they can afford the 

 trip, but, from the Mississippi valley 

 west, there ought certainly to a grand 

 rally at Los Angeles in August. 



tfi^^K <Lini^k^^> 



DON'T ATTEMPT TOO MUCH. 



How niiin.v times in my travels as 

 State Inspector of Ajialrles, do I see 

 the ill effects of u man trying to do 

 t<H) much — overbtu-dened with work. 



1 recall one incitance of a young man 

 with 120 acres of land, and one hired 

 man. Last spring he Innight thirty 

 colonies of bees. He did not examine 

 them at the time of purclias»», but. lat- 

 er, he found them infected with foul 

 brcKHl, and sent for me to come and 

 help him. He apologlzeU for the ap- 

 pearance of his yard. He had mowed 

 the gi-ass, but "had not h;id time" to 

 lake it uji. In his dwelling the flii'S 



