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propolis, honey drippinij from one case 

 and daubing the one below it, coal dust 

 and cinders rubbed u])on the daubed 

 cases, greatly lower the price and retard 

 sales. Before the days of no-drip cases 

 and outside crates I went so far as to wrap 

 a paper around each case before ship- 

 ment, that the cases might be clean when 

 they reached their destination. 



Men who make exhibits at fairs often 

 lose premiums that they might have cap- 

 tured had they not neglected to tastefully 

 label their packages. It is a little thing, 

 but it adds the finishing touch. 



Then there are the little things, like: 

 "Where do you keep your smoker and 

 fuel?" The neglect to provide a proper 

 place for them may mean a costly fire. 

 I once kept my smoker and fuel in an old 

 wash-boiler. Once upon a time when I re- 

 moved the cover, the flamis burst out. 

 Suppose the boiler had been a wooden 

 box kept in a building, and the fire had 

 not been discovered while still confined to 

 the box ? I now keep my smoker and 

 fuel in a large box, with a hinged cover, 

 out in the yard. 



The matter of saving wax ought not to 

 be neglected. It is a good deal like sav- 

 ing paper rags, just about as easy 

 to save the odds and ends as to throw 

 them away. A solar wax extractor is a 

 nice thing for this purpose. Keep it 

 standing in the yard, and when there is a 

 bit of waste comb toss it into the extrac- 

 tor. One year when I did a large job of 

 transferring I threw all of the odds and 

 ends into a barrel, and pounded them 

 down hard with the end of a large stick. 

 Then the matter of rendering was neglect- 

 ed until that barrel two-thirds lull of 

 pounded down comb was one mass of 

 webs and wriggling worms. 



But why multiply examples? We all 

 know that the profits of an apiary can be 

 entirely wasted or destroyed by little neg- 

 lects. What is the cause of this neglect ? 

 In some cases it is simply a combination 

 of indolence, procrastination, and a sort 

 of belief that things will come out all 

 right of themselves. Then there is the 



neglect that comes from having loo many 

 irons in the fire. If you have so much 

 business that you can only half attend to 

 it, that something must be neglected, two 

 courses are open: hire some one to help 

 you, or else dispose of part of your busi- 

 ness. There is mose pleasure and 

 more profit, in a small business well 

 managed than in a large business 

 that must be neglected. Some men 

 are so constituted that they can not em- 

 ploy help to advantage. They have done 

 all of their work so long that they feel no 

 one else can do it properly. It would 

 put them all in fidgets to see some one 

 else cleaning their sections, or uncapping 

 combs for the extractor. Other men 

 have learned that it is much more profit- 

 able for them to oversee and plan the 

 work, leaving the carrying out of the de- 

 tails to competent help. You know your- 

 self, or ought to, so choose the course to 

 which you are adapted, but don't keep on 

 conducting your business in such a man- 

 ner that you are compelled to neglect it. 

 Be thorough, up-to-date, progressive, and 

 energetic, but don't lose haif you'- profits 

 as the result of little neglects. 



EXTRACTED. 



ADVERTISING HONEY. 



An Easy, Excellent way of Doing it most 

 Effectiiailv. 



So-called breakfast foods, such as roll- 

 ed oats, wheat foods, grape nuts, and the 

 like, are now very popular. As a rule, 

 they are eaten with a sprinkling of sugar; 

 the general public knowing notliing of the 

 superiority of honey for this purpose. 

 Xo better scheme has been devised for 

 bringing honey to the notice of these 

 people, than that suggested in Gleanings 

 by Mr. Wm. Hahman. He says: — 



While at breakfast this morning it oc- 

 curred to me that the bee-keepers of this 

 country could do a good thing for the 



