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THE AMERICAN APICULTUEIST. 



and never be above learning from 

 others. Visit beekeepers wherever 

 3'ou can enjoy the privilege, attend 

 bee-conventions, and gradually a 

 store of knowledge will be gathered 

 upon which you will draw with 

 profit later on. 



Profitable beekeeping as a pur- 

 suit is, to my mind, the outcome 

 of the union of two great factors — 

 "talent" and "tact ;" for "talent 

 is power, tact is skill ; talent is 

 wealth, tact is ready money ; talent 

 knows what to do, tact knows how 

 to do it ; talent makes the world 

 wonder that it gets on no faster, 

 tact excites astonishment that it 

 gets on so fast ; talent may obtain 

 a living, but tact will make one. 

 Talent convinces, tact converts ; 

 talent is an honor to the profession, 

 tact has the knack of slipping into 

 good places, and keeping them ; it 

 seems to know everything without 

 learning anything: it has no left 

 hand, no deaf ear, no blind side, 

 with a full knowledge of the Py- 

 thagorean doctrine, 'that a man 

 ought rather to be silent, or say 

 something better than silence.' " 



I submit these remarks to my 

 fellow beekeepers, being painfully 

 conscious of many shortcomings 

 from the high standard of excel- 

 lence that man should attend to 

 who in these days goes into "bee- 

 keeping as a pursuit." 



Germantown, Pa. 



HOWES' REVERSIBLE 

 FRAME-SUPPORT. 



By C. J. F. Howes. 



To whom does the invention be- 

 long? From articles lately appear- 

 ing in Gleanings in Bee Culture, 

 and editorial comments thereon, I 

 think there is a misapprehension ot 

 what the above invention consists, or 

 what it really is, and whose property 

 it is. The above-mentioned articles 

 and editorials are, I feel, doing me an 

 injustice, and have a tendency, virtu- 

 ally, to rob me of all the benefits, to 

 say nothing of the "honors," of the 

 discovery, which I had considered to 

 be my property. 



As to what constitutes my inven- 

 tion, I will quote from my article in 

 the A. B. Journal, page 57, in reply 

 to Mr. Heddon's claim to the inven- 

 tion of the frame illustrated in Glean- 

 ings, page 104. 



"At the annual meeting of the 

 Southeastern Michigan Beekeepers' 

 Association, held at Adrian, Mich., 

 Jan. 23, 1884, I exhibited samples 

 of a device for reversing brood-frames, 

 which device, or plan, suspended the 

 frame by strips of wood, or metal, 

 which strips were pivoted to the cen- 

 tre of the end-bars, and extended up 

 to the top of the frame, there form- 

 ing projecting arms to rest on the 

 rabbets, and allowing the frame to 

 revolve on these pivots. 



In describing the device before 

 the convention, I distinctly claimed 

 as my invention, the plan of suspend- 

 ing the frame between side-strips 

 pivoted to the end-bars, as described." 



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