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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



apples, he mig-ht profitably keep a few 

 colonies of bees for their value in fer- 

 tilizing the blossoms; and he might 

 also find it to an advantage to keep a 

 few hogs to pick up the windfalls. I 

 once attended a National convention of 

 photographers, and one of the "dem- 

 onstrators" illustrated and explained 

 how to make large wooden trays, and 

 line them with enameled cloth, or rubber 

 cloth, for use in toning large photo- 

 graphs. This was one of the first 

 things he had learned when he was 

 apprenticed to a photographer down 

 in Indiana. When set to do this work, 

 as an apprentice, he objected. He did 

 not come to learn how to make trays, 

 but to make photographs. "Part of the 

 business;" "part of the business;" 

 said the old photographer, and the boy 

 had to submit, much to his future ben- 

 efit. I sometimes think, with the old 

 photographer, that hive-making is 

 "part of the business." 



It is true that I have been all that 

 Bro. Getaz says I have, and some 

 things he has left out; in fact, it has 

 been one of my besetting sins, to wish 

 to dabble in many things; and, of late 

 years, I have found it necessary to 

 fight against it with all of my might. 

 First and foremost, for 16 years, I 

 have been editor of the Review. Other 

 things have claimed my attention, but 

 they have all led to one thing — the Re- 

 view. Many is the thing, too, that I 

 have dropped in those 16 years. I 

 tried making a garden — it was cheaper 

 to buy my vegetables of the man who 

 raised them by the acre. I tried keep- 

 ing poultry. I had to keep the fowls 

 confined, and buy everj'thing they ate, 

 and it cost more than it came to. I 

 kept bees, and went to fairs, and found 

 it profitable. The money so obtained 

 was needed to keep the Review going 

 while it was in its infancy. It has 

 grown until it is more profitable to 

 spend my time on the Review rather 

 than with bees or going to fairs, and 

 both have been dropped. I have also 



lately dropped the queen trade for 

 similar reasons. When I accepted the 

 office of State Inspector of Apiaries, 

 the salary was not so attractive to me 

 as the prospects for experience that 

 would make the Review more valuable. 

 Don't you see that all of these things 

 led to ojie thing — the making of the Re- 

 view? Photography is my one play- 

 thing. To be sure, it has helped, and 

 helped wonderfully, in the success of 

 the Review, but it can be laid aside or 

 taken up at pleasure, and is followed 

 mainly for the enjoyment that I get 

 out of it. Oh yes, and there is the job 

 printing. To be sure, I still advertise 

 to do such work, but it is not done 

 with my own hands. It is turned over 

 to the firm of which my son-in-law is a 

 member. Of course, I hold myself re- 

 sponsible for any work I accept, and 

 have my say as to how it shall be done, 

 but I do none of the actual work. Mr. 

 Hartshorn has worked with me so 

 long, that he knows just about what I 

 would do with a certain job. You will 

 notice that when I had some hives 

 made, I did not do the work myself, 

 because there was other work at which 

 I could make more money than I would 

 have to pay the man who did the hive- 

 making. When I come home from one 

 of the large conventions, and have 

 some 200, 8x10 group pictures to make, 

 I don't do the work myself, but turn it 

 over to some one of our local photog- 

 raphers who, with his special arrange- 

 ments, can do the work cheaper than I 

 can, with all of the other work on my 

 hands. As I wrote some time ago, I 

 have found that it does not pay me to do 

 much work that I can hire done. In 

 other words, the work that I can't hire 

 done has accumulated to such an ex- 

 tent that it pays me to hire everything 

 done that I can. But, as Bro. Getaz 

 well saj^s, many bee-keepers are not 

 situated as I am. They have leisure 

 on their hands during the winter- 

 months, and it is then that it pays 

 them to use their leisure in hive-mak- 



