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money, shall he stop there because 

 other journals cost more in proportion 

 to their size? The cheapest journal 

 may be the most profitable (and it ma}' 

 not, it depends upon its adaptation to 

 his needs), but another journal that is 

 not so cheap may still be profitable. It 

 is poor business polic\' for a bee-keeper 

 to limit his reading- to only one journal, 

 because that journal costs him the least 

 money for the amount of reading- that 

 it g-ives. It is impossible to have sev- 

 eral bee journals of exactly the same 

 price and the same number of pag-es, 

 and the same value of information 

 given. The question for each bee- 

 keeper to decide is this: Will this par- 

 ticular bee journal be a profitable in- 

 vestment ? Will it pay me to take it ? 

 Ao/, will it pay me as compared with 

 this or that journal ? 



Another reason given for not sub- 

 scribing- for the Review was that such 

 or such a bee journal was being taken, 

 and the expense of another could not be 

 afforded. So many look upon a bee 

 journal as a sort of luxury', or an in- 

 dulg-ence: the same as they would a 

 story paper, for instance. It is a 

 wrong view. The reading of the bee 



journals may be enjoyable, ought to be 

 enjoyable, but that is not the primary 

 object for which they are read. It is 

 for the information that they contain; 

 for the help that they can give their 

 readers; showing them how to manag-e 

 their bees at greater profit. There is a 

 profit, a real, tangible, dollar and cent 

 profit, in the reading of a bee journal 

 that has any excuse whatever for its 

 existence. If there is a profit in read- 

 ing o;/(f bee journal, how illogical for a 

 man to say he can't afford to read an- 

 other. When I was keeping- bees, be- 

 fore I began publishing the Review, I 

 read all of the bee journals, and found 

 it profitable to do so. Sometimes one 

 little item alone was worth dollars and 

 dollars to me. 



The man who is making a specialt}' 

 of bee-keeping, or keeping- bees in a 

 small way to make money, should 

 spend his first, yes, and his last, dollar 

 for all of the bee journals that are 

 worth reading. Most of the failures 

 in bee-keeping come from mis-manag-e- 

 ment; and the journals point the way 

 as clearly as it is possible to point it. 

 A man can't know too much about his 

 own business. 



General Index to Volume XYIII. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



A B C of Bee Culture 47 



After-Svvarming, How to Prevent 174 



Alpaug-h Jacob 270 



Apiarian Exhibits at Pairs 244, 29i) 



Avocation, Need of a 148 



Baby Nucleus System, who Discovered the 17o 



Benton tioes to the Philipines, Prank 173 



Bee-Brush, Double 82 



Beeswax. Rendering- ()9 



Beeswax, Tests Reg-arding: the Purity of 48 



Black Brood , Experience with 238 



Black Brood, Getting Rid of 336 



Bottom Board s 305 



Brake for an Extractor 101 



"Bricks," Selling Candied Honey in 46 



Brodbeck Geo. W., Death of 84 



Candidates for the National, Some Suggestions 



Regarding the 2'j 



Caucasian Bees 303 



Candidates for Office in the National, Discus- 



sinH 177 



Card Board Sections §1 



Cane Sugar, Inversion of 5(, 



California, Keeping- Bees in Large Numbers 



,, ,.i"-vv V 1'jV 



Candied Honey sold in Bricks" 40 



Card System for Keeping Records in tlie 



Apiary 204 



Californian Keeps Bees in Large Numbers, 



How one 931 



Central Lake Doty-Case 210 



Charitj, have more 2m 



Circular to put in Shipping- Cases, a Honey. '. ^78 



Cover, taking off a hive -y-jQ 



Comb Honey Production in the West .... 271 



Comb honey Production 210, 271 



Comb Honey Production in the South T. ' 42 



Combs in the Spring, Reserve " 277 



