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bees in lare^e numbers. Don't be like 

 the maiden who told her lover that she 

 did not love him then, but would try 

 and learn to love him, for, with the in- 

 creased cares and responsibilities, you 

 may not learn to love it, and you must 

 remember that there is sometimes as 

 much pleasure in the pursuit as in the 

 possession. 



.\ RICH REWARD AT THE CLOSE OK DAY. 



The amount of travel absolutely nec- 

 essary to care for so many bees, be- 

 comes almost a drud'j^-ery; but, in my 

 own case, my wife is a landscape 



painter, and, many times, as we start 

 to drive home after a hard day's work, 

 with the sun's last rays falling- upon 

 the crags and peaks of the Rocky 

 Mountains, forty miles away, casting- 

 its lights and tints down the canons 

 and out upon the fields and groves, 

 the whole country is transformed into 

 a great art gallery; and, in the ever- 

 changing panorama, she frequently 

 points out to us the invisible, yet 

 beautiful, hand of God. 



LONGMONT, Colo., Nov. 28, 1904. 





BY FRED A. KRAUSE. 



T HAVE been much interested, of late, 

 1 in the discussions as to whether 

 bee-keeping should be made a spe- 

 cialt3% or mixed with some other busi- 

 ness. It seems to be the general 

 opinion that bee-keeping- and farming- 

 make the best combination, and that 

 the farmer-bee-keeper is the only sure 

 winner on the road to success. As we 

 have not heard much from the farmer- 

 bee-keeper himself as to what his opin- 

 ion is on the matter, and how he gets 

 along with the combination, I will 

 speak for one. The man who has sev- 

 eral irons in the fire at once, gener- 

 ally knows how successfully he can 

 handle them, better than does the man 

 outside who is merely looking on. 



THE EXPERIENCE OF A FARMER-BEE- 

 KEEPER. 



If I understand m}'^ brother bee- 

 keepers correctly, I am what they 

 term a farmer-bee-keeper, as I was 

 born and raised on the farm I now 

 own; which consists of 200 acres, about 



half improved — and a good paying 

 farm it is. I have kept bees on the 

 farm for the last 15 years; keeping all 

 the way from one to one hundred col- 

 onies; and reading- the bee journals 

 about theit length of time. I will, how- 

 ever, speak only of the last seven or 

 eight years, when I was trying- to keep 

 from 25 to 100 colonies. 



WORK ON A FARM MUST BE DONE EVEN 

 IF BEES ARE NEGLECTED. 



Now, m3' friends, I '^2^,% farming and 

 bee-keeping, so, when you see where I 

 made blunders, don't say: "Wh}' 

 didn't you 'tend to your bees better ?" 

 If you do I shall answer: "Because I 

 had some farm- work that had to be done 

 at just that time, and I could do only 

 one thing at a time." 



Let us suppose it is spring-. Now is 

 the time to take the bees out of the 

 cellar; but that will not take long. 

 Then, after the bees are all set out and 

 looked over, to see how many are left 



