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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



pounds that this first comer mijjht 

 have had if he had only thought of 

 putting an apiary out tliere. This 

 oi)ened his eyes, and he is this year 

 managing 250 colonies, in tliree apia- 

 ries, and harvesting more tlian ten 

 tons of honey. This is the kind of t>ee- 

 keeping the Review is doing its ut- 

 most to encourage — extensive bee- 

 keeping, in a good locality, conducted 

 upon business principles. 



KBEP UP YOUR ENTHUSIASM. 



Enthusiasm is needed In any busi- 

 ness. But little can be accomplished 

 without it. The man who goes to his 

 work with leaden feet, and no interest 

 in his Avork, is sure to fail. Enthu- 

 siasm, well directed, almost insures 

 success. Many a task or enterprise 

 is begun with great enthusiasm, only 

 to go down, as enthusiasm wanes. If 

 only the enthusiasm of the beginning 

 could be kept up, business would hum. 



When a man opens a store he has 

 a grand "opening." A brass band is 

 hired, souvenirs and flowers are given 

 away, the floors and windows shine 

 with the polishing that has been given 

 them, the clerks put forward the best 

 foot, page advertisements appear in 

 the papers, etc. After a little the en- 

 thusiasm Ix'gins to wane, and the 

 store and its management drop back 

 to the common place. What a business 

 a store could build up if this opening 

 enthusiasm could be kept up. The 

 same with a man who buys out a 

 newspaper. The old type and presses 

 must give way to new. Perhaps the 

 building is painted, floors scrubbed 

 and the walls newly papered, etc. 

 Now, why can't the original owner 

 wake up and do these very things just 

 as well as the man to whom he sold? 

 Why can't we all keep up our enthu- 

 siasm in our business; keep things 

 up-to-date, and in good trim, and all 

 the time keep improving, just as we 



do when we first start in? Why ever 

 lose our first enthusiasm? 



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I,ET INGENUITY HAVE HER PEREECT 

 WORK. 



A little hard thinking will often 

 lielp one out of an apparently insur- 

 mountable difficulty. While on a trip 

 through Northern Michigan recently, 

 I came across a fine clump of milk- 

 weed in bloom by the side of the road. 

 I stopped to photogi-aph it. The troub- 

 le was that the wind was blowing 

 liard enough to keep the plants con- 

 stantly in motion. ""If I only had it in 

 a room where tlie wind wouldn't 

 blow," was M'hat I kept thinking, 

 'ilien I thought, "If I could only make 

 a room here some way." At last it 

 came. "Take the two spreads out ol 

 the carriage, pin them together, thus 

 making a large sheet, have the driver 

 hold up one end and I the other, 

 and keep the wind off these fine flow- 

 ers in the foreground." No sooner 

 thought of than done. Result, a fine 

 picture. 



GETTING BENEFIT FROM NEW BLOOD 

 WITH BUT UTTLE LABOR. 



Most of bee-lcepers, where they 

 buy queens, feel that they must rear 

 Queens from the new queens in order 

 to derive much benefit from them. 

 Mr. 8. 1). Chapman, of Mancelona, 

 Michigan, has a plan tliat involves 

 much less labor, and it is likely thai 

 he secures equally good results— per- 

 haps better. He buys several queens 

 of the best breeders, and introduces 

 them to good colonies in his apiary. 

 Instead of rearing queens from them, 

 he furnislies their colonies with an 

 abundance of drone comb, restricting 

 its use in all of his other colonies. The 

 result is that a large number of his 

 queens are mated to drones of the 

 new stock; and it is generally conced- 



