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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



dry it looks like the letter A, and the 

 bearing surface is very small — no rot. 

 Three galvanized wires might be laid 

 in the mortar a little ways from each 

 of the three edges, then they would be 

 never breakable. They can be made in 

 a V-shaped wooden eave trough, the 

 trough marked the right length to cut 

 with trowel into right lengths; or sev- 



eral little troughs could be all nailed 

 together with two end pieces. 



The high up stand has several ob- 

 jections, and hives set directly on the 

 ground don't last long. 



Dear reader if you try the cement 

 stand surely report some good day. 



Colo, Iowa, Jan. 6, 1906. 



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TN the very nature of things, a social- 

 i ist must be a sociologist. A social- 

 ist believes that the material rewards 

 should be paid to those who are useful, 

 that social service should be the meas- 

 ure of success and be paid for accord- 

 ingly. He considers that the present 

 form of society is most unfair to the 

 worker, and is consequently desirous 

 of making radical changes in its struc- 

 ture. He is thus forced to study close- 

 ly all forms of society that have been 

 upon this earth, are now, and is then 

 led to prophecy what will be. Thus 

 he becomes a student of society, a 

 sociologist. 



The bee-hive has long been an object 

 of stud J' to sociologists; therefore I, as 

 a socialist, had become interested in 

 the social economy of the bee long be- 

 fore I ever possessed a colony, and 

 was fairly familiar with its philoso- 

 phy before I ever touched a frame or 

 clipped the wing of a queen bee 



As a social organization, a colony of 

 bees has no superior; possibly it may 

 have its equal in a nest of ants, but not 

 having studied these little creatures I 

 am unable to express an opinion. In 

 human affairs, more especially in the 

 last century, there is continual change. 

 Life, it is now admitted, is an eternal 

 adaptation to environment; bee keepers 

 call it locality, and I frequently think 



they do not fully realize all that is cov- 

 ered by the one word they use so fre- 

 quently. Man differs materially from 

 other forms of life in this, that he 

 makes tremendous changes in his sur- 

 roundings; that is, modifies his en- 

 vironment, and then has to make stren- 

 uous efforts to accommodate himself to 

 the new conditions that he himself 

 created. Curiously enough, he rather 

 rebels against the self-compelled, 

 structural alterations in his social 

 fabric. The reason being that he con- 

 siders self interest the governing fac- 

 tor, and, therefore, objects to any 

 change that is not evidently for his own 

 betterment, evt-n though it may be for 

 the good of the human race as a whole. 

 So, there are stress and strain contin- 

 uously in the social organism, with im- 

 morality continuously flaunted in our 

 faces, of a necessary condition of hu- 

 man society. 



To the socialist, morality does not 

 mean certain actions that one must not 

 do. He views the question in a ver_y 

 much broader light. He realizes the 

 struggle for existence, the keen com- 

 petition between individuals, and to 

 him morality means the shifting of the 

 struggle from a lower to a higher plane. 

 In simple savagery, the competition is 

 purely physical; and there the man of 

 powerful build satisfies his desires at 



