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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



had hard work to hold my tongue. I 

 wanted to say: "Why in the world don't 

 you turn that job over to some boy, and 

 you go out and call on customers, or 

 prospective customers, and talk with 

 them about the importance of neat, even 

 handsome, stationery. Tell them that it 

 doesn't so much matter what they think 

 about their stationery as what the man 

 thinks who gets it. What impression 

 does it make upon him? Then show 

 samples of work and really help custo- 

 mers to get up something away ahead of 

 anything they have ever used The 

 proprietor of an ordinary job printing 

 office should spend his time in thus look- 

 ing after business. 



My sickness of the past few months 

 has not been without its lessons, and one 



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of them is that I spend more time in 

 thinking and planning and less in work- 

 ing. I couldn't work, and I couldn't help 

 thinking, so I lay on my cot and hatched 

 out schemes for improving the Review 

 and increasing its circulation. If I had 

 been at work I should have been too 

 busy to think of these things. It was a 

 most concrete object-lesson to me. 



The bee keeper who is spreading out, 

 and "keeoing more bees," ought not to 

 attempt to do all of the work himself. 

 Nailing up hives, painting hives, nailing 

 up frames, wiring them, putting in foun- 

 dation, putting together sections, extract- 

 ing honey, cleaning and crating section 

 honey, etc., can all be delegated to others, 

 while the manager manages, oversees 

 and plans. 



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HONLY-5TOR1NG CAPABILITILS. 



5ome Reasons why one Colony Stores 



More Surplus than Another, Although 



not so Populous. 



The first year that I started with bees, 

 I had four colonies. Three were of ordin- 

 ary strength in the early spring— one 

 considerably weaker. When clover 

 opened in June, all were about of equal 

 strength, but the weaker colony that had 

 just reached its "majority" so to speak, 

 stored twice the surplus of any of the 

 other colonies. 



Several years later, when my brother 

 Elmer was with me, I remember one 

 colony in particular, when taking the 

 bees from the cellar one spring. I think 

 it was the most populous of any colony 

 that I ever saw brought out of a cellar. 

 It seemed jammed full of bees from top 

 to bottom, and from front to rear. I 



considered it so much of a sight that I 

 went to the house and invited my wife 

 to come down to the apiary and see it. 

 I remember that we all stood around this 

 colony, arms akimbo, and endulged in 

 remarks regarding what might be ex- 

 pected of such a colony. When the 

 harvest was over I found that it had 

 fallen far below the average, while one 

 other colony that had shown no special 

 or unusual signs of prosperity, had stored 

 double the average. 



Shakespeare says: "There is a tide in 

 the affairs of men, which, taken at its 

 flood, leads on to fortune." It's the same 

 with a colony of bees. At some period 

 in the life-history of a colony from early 

 spring to the end of the season, there 

 comes a time, a "flood," when that colony 

 is in the best possible condition to store 

 surplus. If this flood comes at the same 

 time as the best honey flow, then we 

 secure a bumper crop. If it comes too 



