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through the eyes of a dealer, and not 

 exactly as it is. I do feel sure, how- 

 ever, that the trouble with that 300 

 colony man, was not too much work 

 but rather not ciiougli. If he does not 

 operate more than 300 colonies, he 

 should by all means do something else. 

 He should be so busy that he will feel 

 that he is neglecting his bees— then they 

 will be well cared for. It is the man 

 who has idle moments who puts things 

 off until a more convenient time, not 

 the busy man. For instance. I have 

 been operating three yards (200 to 250 

 colonies) all of them outyards, for 

 comb honey, and am on the road for 

 the State eleven months of the year, 

 yet the bees are better cared for than 

 when I was teaching school but nine 

 months of the year. You know when 

 a fellow has to do a thing in a cer- 

 tain length of time he will work out a 

 system and invent short cuts that will 

 do wonders. 



I wanted to say these things to you 

 because this doctrine of the minimum 

 of labor for a given number of col- 

 onies is really a part of your doctrine of 



"Keep more bees." In my work among 

 bee-keepers I see so much misdirected 

 and ineffectual work, and have noted 

 that the busy man is the one who does 

 things. 



I know of course that in my case I 

 could make more money by keeping 

 more bees and dropping the other work, 

 and hope to do so as fast as I can, but 

 there are a whole lot of us two and 

 three hundred colony fellows who at 

 present at least find it convenient to be 

 tied to something else. 



To such I would say, "Keep more 

 bees," but if you don't, do something 

 else most of the year, and do it hard. 



Peru, Indiana. Nov. 21st, 1910. 



[I am heartily in accord with the 

 above article. It rings true from be- 

 ginning to end. If a good many of 

 us who think we are so busy, would 

 stop and take an inventory of zvliat we 

 really do do, I am afraid we would be 

 surprised at the small amount really ac- 

 complished. System in our work means 

 everything, and it applies to bee keep- 

 ing as well as any other business. "I 

 am too busy" too often means, "I 

 haven't the inclination, or ambition.'"] 



"The reason most of us do not accom- 

 plish more is because we do not attempt 

 more." 



"Every farmer boy wants to be a 

 school teacher, every school teacher 

 hopes to be an editor, every editor 

 w'ould like to be a banker, every banker 

 would like to be a trust magnate, and 

 every trust magnate hopes some day to 

 own a farm and have chickens and cows 

 and pigs and horses to look after. We 

 end where we begin." 



A New Paradise for Bee-Keepers. 



The frontispiece for this month's Re- 

 view shows an apiary on the Ivy ranch, 

 near Phoenix, Arizona. This is in the 

 famous Salt River Valley, where the 

 completion of the Roosevelt Dam last 

 spring made thousands of additional 

 acres available for farm use. 



This immense dam, requiring over 

 four years' work, and costing in the 

 neighborhood of $3,500,000, is 280 feet 

 high. The lands below the dam which 

 will be irrigated by its waters will make 

 25,000 farms. 



