1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



15 



prises are often hopelessly stuck on the 

 threshukl because a pound or two of 

 pressure is lacking to start them, those 

 looking on saying '"If the thing goes 

 and proves good, then 1 am in for it," 

 often all )wing the good thing to fail 

 becaii'^e they are not willing to push a 

 pound or two at the start. So many 

 projects in bee-keeping often come to 

 nothing because those who have under- 

 taken tiiem are not strong enough to 

 overcome the lirst point of resistance, 

 and we, perhaps thinking that we can- 

 not do much, excuse ourselves from 

 doing anything to help them on. We 

 forget that two times two are four. We 

 do not stop to consider that our little, 

 added to another's little, might make an 

 adequate amount to move the thing suc- 

 cessfully. We do not estimate aright 

 the strength of " both of us together." 

 And now a thought regarding The 

 American Bee-keeper. Editor Hill is 

 pulling with all his might to make it the 

 best bee-paper in the world. Are the 

 readers pushing as they should? Every 

 reader should hn interested in making it 

 the best bee-paper when they know that 

 Bro. Hill is pulling till he is "almost 

 breathless." Bro. Hill can do a lot to- 

 ward making a bee-paper alone, but 

 history has told us that no bee-paper 

 can live long where none but the editor 

 contributes to its columns. And thus 

 it comes about (it is not expected that 

 Bro. Hill will see tliis) as in the story, 

 that tiie strongest force is really on the 

 "push" side. The lady on the outside 

 was a stronger force than the little boy 

 on tiie inside. So in the case of any 

 bee-paper, tlie stronger force toward its 

 success is its contributers. Therefore, 

 brother and sister reader, the success of 

 Bro. HilTs undertaking depends very 

 largely on you. Will you push? But I 

 hear someone asking " How shall I 

 push?" Just as you would at anything 

 you wished to do — in your own way. 

 You have ways of working at bee-keeping 

 that no one else has, and what is wanted 

 is for you to push in the matter of mak- 



ing The American Bee-keeper the best 

 bee-paper in exi'^tence by telling us oc- 

 casionally just how you do some of the 

 things which prove successful with you. 

 Tell it your own way and in your own 

 language, just as the lady pushed with 

 her own hands, and then with all of us 

 together we shall be '-too strong for the 

 old door." 



Borodino, N.Y. 



MR. ARTHUR C. MILLER 



In our series of portraits of distin- 

 guished bee-keeperi^, we are pleased to 

 be able to present a recent and excellent 

 picture in this number, of Mr. A. C. 

 Miller, of Provicence, R. I., the city of 

 his birth. 



Mr. Miller is a born horticulturist and 

 bee keeper, being especially enthusiastic 

 upon the latter subject; and has been 

 from childhood a diligent student of 

 apiculture. It is to him that we are all 

 indebted for the hot-plate method of 

 fastening foundation in sections, as the 

 system was invented by him several 

 years ago. He has recently, we believe, 

 invented a machine for uncapping 

 honey. Tins machine lias not yet been 

 placed on the market, but if the practi- 

 cal tests to which it is now being put, 

 prove as successful as anticipated, tlie 

 inventor's fame will live with that of 

 Hruschka and Mehring. 



In a recent letter Mr. Miller conclud- 

 ed with this inspiring sentence: "I be- 

 lieve bee-keeping is still in its infancy — 

 that the future will see great develop- 

 ments." The thought at once came in 

 response, "The extent of future develop- 

 ments will depend entirely upon the 

 number of progressive minds, such as 

 your own, which become identified with 

 the pursuit." Would that there were 

 more of the bee-keeping fraternity liold- 

 ing such optimistic views; for the de- 

 velopment of the industry rests upon 

 the shoulders of such. 



Mr. Miller's entertaining and instruc- 

 tive style, as a writer, has been demon- 



