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worthy President has done. With on- 

 ly 4(K) colonies, he last year secured 

 54,000 pounds of extracted honey. Had 

 it not been for his official duties he 

 could have doubled the number of colo- 

 nies and the results. If your locality 

 is a poor one, let it be your first step to 

 seek a good location. Why waste 

 your life as a bee-keeper in a poor lo- 

 cation? Get a g'ood location, get some 

 good stock, spread out and keep sever- 

 al hundreds of colonies, and make a 

 success worth while. 



Don't say you can't do this. You 

 can. The first, and the most impor- 

 tant step, is to decide to do this. Don't 

 say you haven't got the money. That 

 is no excuse. You can get it. If you 

 were given the alternative of going to 

 prison one year, or paying $100, you 

 would get the monej' some way. If a 

 surgical operation were necessary 

 to save your arm or leg, and the cost 

 of having it performed was SlOO, you 

 would raise the money. It is only a 

 question of having sufficient incentive 

 and the money will come. If 3fou can 

 get up sufficient enthusiam, and cour- 

 age, and faith in the business, you 

 can accomplish almost anything you 

 will to accomplish. I received a letter, 

 only a few days ago, from a young 

 man in Canada, saying that he began 

 bee-keeping seven years ago. At that 

 time his capital consisted of a first- 

 class wife and a bouncing baby bo}'. 

 He went in debt for SlOO-worth of bees, 

 and had to endure the jeers and taunts 

 of friends at his imprudence. The 

 $100 was paid before the year was out. 

 Now he has 350 colonies of bees, a 

 little home all paid for, and money in 

 the bank sufficient to keep them sever- 

 al years if necessary. What man has 

 done, man can do. 



Many bee-keepers don't realize their 

 own powers; they possess traits and 

 jiossibilities capable of accomplishing 

 great things, once they are aroused 

 to action. To illustrate: I lay my 

 good right arm prone upon the tabl(^ 



It lies there usless and inert. It pos- 

 sesses powers, but they are dormant 

 until, from the brain, along these line, 

 thread-like nerves, darts that subtle 

 fluid, electricity or magnetism, when 

 the muscles are stimulated into 

 action, and wonderful are the results. 

 These few words of mine may be the 

 needed stimulus for starting into 

 action, and arousing to new life, many 

 a poor bee-keeper now plodding along 

 in a rut with only a few bees. They 

 may encourage him to join the ranks 

 of the "New Bee-Keeping, " and even- 

 tually' place his feet upon the mountain- 

 top of prosperit\'. 



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SHALL THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

 GATHER HONEY-STATISTICS? 



If there is any one feature of the re- 

 cent report of the General Manager of 

 the National Association, over which 

 bee-keepers are enthusiastic, it is the 

 publication of the addresses of the 

 members, together with the number of 

 pounds of honej' produced — particular- 

 ly the latter feature. Manj' members 

 have found a market for their crops 

 through this publication of the 

 amounts they had produced, and 

 manj' who wished to buy honej* 

 learned who had it for sale. 



From conversations with bee-keepers 

 that I met in my recent trip through 

 New York, and from discussions at 

 the conventions, it is very evident that 

 there is an urgent demand that the 

 General Manager go one step farther, 

 and receive statistics of the honey crop 

 just as soon as possible after it is 

 gathered, tabulate the reports immedi- 

 atel}', and mail the results to each 

 member. A knowledge of what the 

 crop has been all over the country, 

 placed in the hands of the members 

 immediately after the gathering of the 

 crop, would be of immense value in 

 marketing the crop. One of the first 

 anxious inquiries put to Manager 

 France at the Los Angeles Convention 



