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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Don't Give up Your Bee Journals. 



At the end of the year some sub- 

 scribers will drop their bee journals. 

 There are two reasons why I hate to see 

 this done. One is the loss of the sub- 

 scribers, and the other the subscribers' 

 loss; and the latter is ten fold greater 

 than the former. No man can know too 

 much about his business. Success comes 

 from knowing how; from doing things the 

 right way. It is not the things we do 

 without that help us to succeed, it's the 

 things we have, to work with: and, to 

 the bee keeper, no tool is more important 

 than his bee journal. 



Take Good Care of Yourself — Don't 

 Overwork. 



When at the hospital I was struck with 

 the large percentage of middle aged men 

 among the patients. In talking with 

 them 1 learned that the majority of them 

 brought on their troubles by indiscretion, 

 mostly of diet and labor. Many of them 

 had done two day's work in one, year 

 after year. They had bolted their 

 m.eals — eaten them on the run. They 

 were well and strong and thought they 

 could stand anything. Nature is patient 

 and long suffering, but, in the end. she 

 exacts the penalty. If you have health, 

 care for it and prize it as the most 

 precious boon on earth. 



Colds Don't Come from a Draft. 



I was brought up with the idea that I 

 must not sit in a draft, or I would surely 

 catch a cold. My faith in this belief has 

 been somewhat shattered. When at the 

 hospital the windows on both sides of the 

 ward were left wide open day and night, 

 rain or shine. Night after night have I 

 slept with the wind blowing in upon me 

 full force, yet I never took cold. It was 

 amusing to listen to the protests of a new 

 patient against the open windows. He. 

 and all of the rest of them, would catch 

 their death of colds— he was sure of that. 

 But the windows stayed up in spite of all 

 protests, and the joke of it was, nobody 

 had a cold while I was there. When we 



go out of doors the wind blows upon us 

 and we think it is all right; why should 

 it be any different because it blows upon 

 us through an open window? 



Lxercising Caution in Hauling Bees 

 and Honey. 



About a year ago, when driving down 

 a steep hill in Ohio, in company with a 

 well known bee keeper, he told me that 

 he once lost a load of honey from so 

 simple a thing as the breaking of a hame 

 strap. He was driving up the hill with a 

 load of honey, when the strap broke; the 

 wagon began to run backwards; there 

 was no way to control it; and it backed 

 off the side of the road and turned com- 

 pletely over; smashing the honey into one 

 conglomerate mass on the ground. 



Have Bees Intelligence? 



It has been argued that bees are lack- 

 ing in intelligence— that they are simply 

 reflex machines, but, once in awhile some- 

 thing points strongly towards reason. 

 Some of the readers of the Review will 

 remember a Mr. Menhall who has bees 

 on the roof of his floating photographic 

 studio used on the Mississippi; well, he 

 writes me that he placed a gasoline en- 

 gine on his boat last summer and uses it 

 as a propelling power. He now finds it 

 unnecessary to fasten the bees in their 

 hives when moving from one landing to 

 another. He simply starts the engine 

 one-half or three-fourths of an hour 

 before starting, and every bee that 

 comes in will stay in the hive until the 

 engine is stopped. It would seem that 

 the bees had learned not to leave the 

 engine was running. 



A New Edition of the A B C and X Y Z 

 of Bee Culture. 



New editions of this book come out so 

 frequently that it is difficult to say any- 

 thing new in the way of a review. The 

 last edition has one new feature, that of 

 showing operations in the apiary by 

 means of what the publisher calls "mov- 

 ing pictures," that is, a series of pictures 



