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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR 

 w. z, HUTCHINSON. Editor am Proprieioi. 



VOL. XIX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, FEB. 15, 1906. NO. 2 



^liL©rt Cmts in Exti 



R. F. HOLTERMANN. 



MANY years ago, when I first began 

 bee-keeping, a long winter lay be- 

 fore me, with nothing in particular in 

 view for me to do. Times were hard, 

 and .k ork not easily obtained, so I hired 

 out with a firm of manufactnrers at 85 

 cents a day. I did not try to make 

 myself just valuable enough to earn 

 that 85 cents a day, with a mental 

 promise to do better when my pay was 

 increased, as' so many mistakenly do, 

 but sought to make m3'self as valuable 

 as I knew how. 



To illustrate: They were punching 

 three holes in a piece of band-iron, 

 then three holes in another piece, and 

 afterwards riveting the two pieces to- 

 gether in pairs. Sometimes the holes 

 were not punched in exactly the proper 

 places, the rivets would not go through 

 both pieces, and there was trouble. I 

 " taced " I'ne two pieces, and punched 

 them in pairs, thus performing the two 

 operations and the riveting in greatl}' 

 reduced time. Other " simple-when- 

 you-once-see-it " time-saving devices 



followed, and, in two months, my pay 

 was raised to $1.50 a daj', and when I 

 finally left the firm I was getting $5.00 

 a day, and there was no desire to have 

 me leave, either. 



The great struggle today, among 

 manufact'irers in the same line, is, by 

 short cuts, to reduce the cost of pro- 

 duction — to produce a better article at 

 less cost. The successful man in any 

 line of production must do the same. 



IMPORTANCE OF SHORT CUT.S. 



Bee-keepers have heard a great deal 

 about many subjects, but not enough 

 attention has been paid to the cost of 

 production. Now there seems to be a 

 more united and determined action in 

 this direction, and, once the search 

 light is thrown on the cost of produc- 

 tion, we will use every means in our 

 power to reduce that cost. In the 

 shoi't cuts of business often lies the dif- 

 ference between pront and loss. Other 

 things being equal, the man who is up 

 to date, or a little ahead, in this mat- 

 ter, can smile at all opposition. 



