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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



scribed by only one word and that 

 word is BUSINESS. Possibly some who 

 went there to hear "bee-talk," were 

 disappointed, as scarcely anjthing 

 was said about manipulation or the 

 production of honey. There was at 

 least one man who was not disap- 

 pointed, and that was myself. For 

 years I have talked and worked and 

 written to induce bee keepers to paj' 

 more attention to the business end of 

 bee-keeping. I have contended that, if 

 there was any honey in the fields, we 

 knew how to secure it in marketable 

 shape; that the bee journals have for 

 years taught manipulation and pro- 

 duction to the almost total neglect of 

 the business part of the occupation, — 

 to the buying of supplies, the adver- 

 tising and selling of the produce, and 

 the securing of needed legislation, and 

 now for the National Association to 

 devote a good share of the time to these 

 subjects, is a decidedly hopeful symp- 



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THE NECESSITY FOR BROADNESS IN AT- 

 TAINING THE HIGHEST SUCCESS. 



The editor of the Cosmopolitan was 

 surprised at the sameness and common- 

 place of the exhibits in the art depart- 

 ment of the St. Louis fair. He decided 

 that this result came from art students 

 simply being copj'ists. They are 

 taught technicality and copying, but 

 not encouraged to be original, to stud_v 

 life and mankind as well as painting, 

 to think, to branch out in new paths. 



As is often the case, I tried to apply 

 the lesson to our pursuit. It seemed to 

 be about like this: The journals and 

 leaders have taught manipulation and 

 detail, and said very little to encour- 

 age bee-keepers to branch out and 

 think, and do for themselves. Just now 

 bee-keeping is being taken up on broad- 

 er lines; men are broadening out and 

 keeping hundreds of colonies and mak- 

 ing dollars where they once madecents, 

 yet the journals seem very slow in en- 

 couraging this plan of bee-keeping. 



Even the bee-keepers themselves frown 

 upon the "keeping of more bees." To 

 my readers let me say, with all possi- 

 ble emphasis, don't be mere copyists 

 and imitators. Do some thinking for 

 yourselves. Try and comprehend the 

 possibilities that are in store for you 

 if you will only arouse yourself to the 

 changed conditions. 



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SOME BEE-KEEPERS MIGHT EARN 

 MONEY WINTERS BY WRITING 

 ARTICLES FOR AGRICUL- 

 TURAL PAPERS. 



What bee-keeper has not noticed the 

 poor class of matter that appears in 

 the apiarian departmentsof many of the 

 agricultural papers? It contains little 

 really helpful information, while much 

 of it is absolutely misleading. And 

 this brings to my mind the fact that 

 here is a much neglected field which 

 might be cultivated to advantage by 

 many bee-keepers, viz, writing bee- 

 keeping articles for the agricultural 

 journals. Particularly might they do 

 this during the leisure of winter. 

 Such articles might not all be publish- 

 ed in the winter, but the bee-keeper 

 could write articles in the winter tliat 

 would be seasonable in summer. 



Not only could mati}^ bee-keepers 

 earn money in this manner, but the3^ 

 could help to educate the farmer and 

 the general public. Farmer honey 

 and farmer methods of marketing, are 

 a decided menace to the specialist. 

 Let us do what we can to educate the 

 farmer to adopt better methods. For 

 several years before beginning the 

 publication of the Review I was a reg- 

 ular contributor to the apiar'an col- 

 umns of several farm-journals, such as 

 the Country Gentleman, Rural New 

 Yorker, Farmers' Review, American 

 Agriculturist, etc. There are many 

 others to which I might have contrib- 

 uted if I had had the time. There is a 

 demand for really good matter of this 

 kind. 



