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be there. No single vocation is broad 

 enough to aflFord any mind the 

 breadth of action that will be re- 

 quired. Sooner or later we find our- 

 selves tiring of sameness and we 

 drift out in quest of recreative activ- 

 ity. It should require strong incen- 

 tives to cause us to relinquish all the 

 old successful lines to take up the un- 

 tried and uncertain new lines, yet it 

 is often done. 



Nor is it advisable to go into any 

 business deeply because some one else 

 advises that way. It is often the case 



our means and fail it may send us to 

 the bottom where it will be a slow 

 and difficult matter to rise again. We 

 may compare it to allowing an old 

 horse to get down poor and hide- 

 bound. It will take nearly a whole 

 summer of green grass to get him 

 in respectable order again. 



We read of many instances of bees 

 being scant in stores and in South- 

 ern California this year there were 

 nearly whole apiaries starved just be- 

 fore the honey harvest arrived. Quite 

 all of this scantiness to which the bees 



Hill Overgrown With Sweet Clover, Situated Opposite the Home of 

 Mr. Fred W. Muth, at Cincinnati, 0. 



that persons think themselves cut out 

 as especial teachers and they fall into 

 giving peculiar advice because they 

 have not practiced themselves enough 

 to know what the best advice is. There 

 is a great deal of advice given which 

 the givers themselves would not fol- 

 low. Advice giving has become an 

 occupation and is as liable to be 

 "worked" to excess as other profit 

 rendering schemes. We should re- 

 member, yes, remember with a ven- 

 geance that if we borrow or invest 



are subjected is caused by a desire to 

 amass wealth or pattern after others. 

 There are more than thirteen ways to 

 improve such apiary management. 

 Many times the stores the bees should 

 have retained in the hives were taken 

 out and exchangd for articles which 

 stand idle most all the year; such as 

 fine vehicles, silk dresses, hardwood 

 houses, mahogany furnishings, gold 

 and silver trinkets, etc., and which are 

 largely for outward show. These 

 things have not the tendency to home 



