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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



•my turn in affairs, in short, a man 

 in tlie fullest sense. He must be able 

 to !.>(' bis reasoning powers to good 

 effect, to be able to discover rauses, 

 and to reason from them to effect. He 

 niURt be able to make good plans, and 

 then to carry them out. He must do 

 things. He will listen to the experi- 

 ence and advice of others, but, in the 

 end he will decide for himself. The 

 .ifiiirnals, for years, have been loaded 

 ^^-ith advice in regard to manipula- 

 tion. They have treated their read- 

 ers in the way that some parents bring 

 up their children; they have thought 

 for them, and told them exactly how 

 to do and what to do. They have 

 solved the problems for them. To a 

 certain extent, it is right that the 

 journals should give advice about ma- 

 nipulation. Perhaps this is their most 

 important field, but their readers 

 should also be encouraged, roused, led 

 to think and act for themselves, to be- 

 come broad, liberal-minded, first-class 

 business men. They should be shown 

 that bee-keeping, commercial bee-keep- 

 ing, is not all bees— it is about half 

 business. There are a few principles 

 that seem to have been almost entire- 

 ly ignored. For instance, if a man is 

 to succeed, he must have, a good lo- 

 cation. Common sense ought to teach 

 a man this, but see how many scrub 

 along in a location wholly unfit for 

 the business. Having the location, 

 there must be a large number of bees 

 kept. Having the bees and the loca- 

 tion, then comes the working out of 

 some system adapted to the locality, 

 whereby the labor is reduced to the 

 minimum. 



No one believes more thoroughly in 

 speciality than I believe in it, yet a 

 man must not confine himself so close- 

 ly to his specialty as to become nar- 

 row minded. He must know some- 

 thing of what is being done in other 

 lines of business aside from his own. 



He better have a hobby, something 

 that he does simply for the pleasure 

 of doing it. His hobby may bring 

 him in some money, but it should be 

 something aside and different from his 

 regular work, something that he is not 

 compelled to do, that can be laid aside 

 or taken up at pleasure, the doing of 

 which brings real pleasure— the same 

 as photography is my hobby. 



The Review's most earnest desire 

 is to see bee-keeping become as safe, 

 pleasant, and profitable as any rural 

 pursuit. To have it become a safe 

 business instead of a precarious avoca- 

 tion. Nothing can be more conducive 

 to success in that line than in helping 

 i1:i readers to become men in the high- 

 •^st sense of the word; and that is why 

 it sometimes contains items that are 

 'lot strictly in the line of manipulation 

 bee-keeping. 



MEMBERSHIP IN THE NATIONAL NOT A 



GUARANTEE OF DEFENSE IN 



A LI. CASES. 



Many seem to have an impression 

 that if they join the National Asso- 

 ciation, said Association will defend 

 them against any attack, regardless of 

 the merits of the case. They seem to 

 regard it as a sort of insurance against 

 any loss by litigation. They seem to 

 believe that their membership in the 

 Association is a sort of license that al- 

 lows them to keep as many bees as 

 they please, anywhere they please, to 

 cause neighbors any amount of an- 

 noyance, yet the Association will stand 

 by them, encourage them and defend 

 them. 



As I understand the matter the As- 

 sociation does not defend its members 

 unless they are in the right, or it is be- 

 lieved they are in the right. I have 

 investigated at least three cases where 

 it was not thought best to defend, and 

 the owners of bees were advised to 



