THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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the older he grows, the less inclined 

 the genuine bee-keeper is to adopt new 

 devices. 



Commenting upon the foregoing edi- 

 tor Koot says: 



" I began active bee-keeping in our 

 yards, and to study bee-journals, when 

 I was 14. I am now nearly 44. Dur- 

 ing these 30 years I have had an oppor- 

 tunit}' to studj' bee-keepers both at 

 INIedina and those in various parts of 

 the country, coming into face-to-face 

 contact with them, and if I am any 

 judge your last sentence is hardly in 

 harmony with the facts. Bee-keeping 

 is not so much different from any other 

 profession or business that it will 

 change the natural tendency in human 

 nature to grow conservative with years. 

 This ia a proposition that we can 

 hardly gainsay, I am not an old man 

 by considerable; but I find myself be- 

 coming more and more skeptical in re- 

 gard to the value of new things. You 

 may not think it; but if you could see 

 the number of things 1 turn down, and 

 the way some of my friends complain 

 of how I pour cold water on some of 

 their inventions that never see the 

 printed page, yon would begin to think 

 that, from their standpoint at least, I 

 was getting to be an old fogy. The 

 time was, perhaps, when I was ready 

 to nibble at nearly every bait that 

 came along; but I hope I am not quite 

 so easy as that now. So jou see I 

 can't help judging you by myself; and. 

 honest, now, don't you find yourself 

 clinging to the old true and tried more 

 than you once did ? Peer agahi into 

 the archives of memory. 



I agree with Editor Root that we are 

 more inclined to turn down new inven- 

 tions as we grow older, but I attribute 

 that to the increase of wisdom, and not 

 to a lack of enthusiasm. I know that I 

 am following bee-keeping now with an 

 enthusiasm equal to that of 30 years 

 ago, and I feel that enthusiasm will 

 last 30 years more should I last that 

 long. 



A man is always just as old as he 

 thinks he is. If he thinks bright, 

 happy, cheerful, enthusiastic thoughts, 

 he will remain young. We are crea- 

 tures of habit, and if we get intothe 

 habit of feeling old, and acting old, 

 and losing interest in things, we will 

 be old before we know it. 



Three-and Five-Banded Italian and 

 Carniolan 



as good as the best and ready to ship 

 now. Satisfaction guaranteed. Un- 

 tested, 50 cts. ; tested, 75 cts, 



C. B. BANKSTON, Milano, Tex. 



3-06-tf 



PURE ITALIAN BEES 



The most beautiful, gentle, prolific, best work- 

 ing, and being long-tongutd, liest honey-gather- 

 ers. l^rizes—Vl, Swiss Agricultural Exhibitio.i, 

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 1896; Bee-Keeping Exposition, Liege, Belgium. 

 1SQ5; Universal Exposition, St. Louis. U. S. A. 

 1904. The Uigbt^st Awurd. Extra select 

 breeding Queen, $5.00: six, §16.00; dozen, $30.60. 

 Selected Queen, S2.00; six, $11.00; dozen. $20.00. 

 Young fertilized queen, tested, $1.60: six, $9.tH): 

 dozen, $16 00. Special prices on larger number. 

 The addresses must be clear; payments by postal 

 money orders. If by chance a queen dies upon the 

 journey she is to be returned immediately, wiih a 

 postal certificate, and another queen will be sent 

 J-^atis. Address. 



Anthony Biaggi, 



Pedeville. near Bellinzona. Italian Switzerland, 



This country ii politically the Switzerland Ke- 

 public, but lies geographically in Italj', and pos- 

 sesses the best kind of bees known. Bee-Keepers 

 of the Far West can ^ivf their orders to my 

 brother Stefano Stephen) Biaggi, farmer, resident 

 at Wash, Plumas Co., California, who will kindly 

 collect orders. In writing, mention the Review. 



QUEENS 



of Moore's Strain of Italians 



Produce workers that fill the supers 

 and are not inclined to swarm. 



Stewart Smillie, Bluevale, Ont., 

 Can., says: 



'"They fill the supers and are not so 

 much inclined to swarm as others. I 

 have been buying queens for 15 years, 

 and your stock was the only one that 

 was an^' good to gather honey. 



Untested queens, $1.00 each; six 

 $5.00; dozen, $9.00. Select untested, 

 $1.25; six, |6 00; dozen, $11.00. 



Safe arrival and satisfaction guar- 

 anteed. 



J. P. MOORE, Morgan, 



Pendleton Co., Ky. 



