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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



black brood as smallpox is worse than 

 measles; and I don't care who says to 

 the contrary. 



THE GREAT NEED OF THOROUGHNESS, 

 PERSEVERANCE AND SPECIALTY. 



I am sorry that such a large per 

 cent, of the people who keep bees do 

 not realize the necessity of being- 

 thorough in everything connected with 

 the business. Far too many of them 

 are looking for "some other business 

 to go with it," not knowing that hardlj' 

 one man in a thousand is sinart 

 enough to be cut in two, and two men 

 made of him. I have always known 

 that / never was; therefore, I have 

 given bees iny whole attention, as a 

 business, for nearly 50 years I The 

 chances to succeed in bee-keeping 

 are, I think, better now than I have 

 ever known them to be before; but. 



like all other lines of business, you 

 must be thorough in all the details. 

 The time is past when the lazy, care- 

 less, shiftless man can compete with 

 the man who puts lots of hard work, 

 energy' and perseverance into his busi- 

 ness. 



In conclusion I will say, either at- 

 tend to your bees as they should be, 

 or else sell theiu to some one who will, 

 and then turn your attention to some- 

 thing else. 



Delanson, N. Y., Dec. 7., 1903. 



[There is one thought, or expression, 

 in the foregoing article worthy of 

 being printed in gold, and that is, 

 "Not one man in a thousand is smart 

 enough to be cut in two, and two men 

 made of him. " Don't forget this when 

 tempted to be or do half a dozen 

 things. — Ed. Review.] 





?e°He©p©ir^ 



BY IRVING KINYON. 



T AST December I asked my readers 

 -B to tell me of their bee-keeping ex- 

 periences, how they started in bee- 

 keeping, what had helped them most, 

 etc. Some of these letters were very 

 interesting; for instance, there was 

 such a delightful freshness about the 

 following, such a lack of conventional- 

 ity, such candor, the beginning of a 

 bee-keeping life told with such grapli- 

 icness, that I begged the writer to 

 allow my readers to enjoy it with me. 

 Besides all this, it contains hints well- 

 worth heeding. Here is the letter: 



Friend Hutchinson: — The December 

 Review is here and I am going to write 

 you that letter you ask for. Your 

 telling about trying to get frames out 

 of hives that were glued in as if to 



to stajs so 3'ou sometimes wished j'ou 

 had a crow-bar or a stump-puller, 

 produced such a feeling of fellowship 

 I was tempted to write you then, but 

 I am a poor hand to write. I see 

 something in the Review, quite often, 

 that I would like to talk with you 

 about and I think this matter of hav- 

 ing frames so the3' ma^' be picked out 

 with no trouble is a very important 

 point, as I will trj' to show farther 

 along. But, as you ask how I came 

 to keep bees, I will go back to the be- 

 ginning. 



The first I ever heard of an}' one 

 "keeping bees for a living," was in 

 the fall of 1887, when we were told 

 that a "bee man" was going to teach 

 our school. This set us all talking 



