262 THE BEE-KEF-PERS' REVIEW 



GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 



Management of Three Thousand Colonies Bees in 



Fifty Yards. 



J. J. WILDER, Cordele, Ga. 



The IVritcr's Credentials. 



'^^^\ SIDE from seeking after the Kingdom of Heaven and His 

 ^t A\ righteousness, the paramount desire in my boyhood days 

 was to obtain an education. While yearning for this I had 

 a series of dreams for successive nights in which I was in school and 

 completed the study of a large number of books. I could not feel 

 that these were common night visions of a resting, wandering mind, 

 and at their close I fully realized that they were in a measure super- 

 natural and the assurance that I would have the privilege of attend- 

 ing school, and l)y and by this opportunity was extended to me. I 

 entered school and went about my studies with all the vim I pos- 

 sessed. But at this time there was another problem that must in 

 some way be solved, and that was a life vocation at the end of my 

 school days. This, too, was a very serious problem, and is to every 

 one who wants his life to be a success. As before I sought guid- 

 ance with all the earnestness of my heart almost continually, and 

 near the close of my last term at school I again had a spell of dream- 

 ing, and this time I had a vision of a great bee-business from which 

 carloads of honey was shipped each year. At each dream the busi- 

 ness grew larger and larger until at the close of the dreaming period 

 a great business had l)een established, and I rejoiced over it because, 

 lastly, it appeared as my own. I felt well and perfectly satisfied 

 over this and by and by, at the first opportunity I established a bee- 

 business, .following up my natural inclinations aroused by those 

 dreams. Xot long after starting I had another problem to solve, 

 and this one was "how could I reach the end of such a business as I 

 had seen planned out before me, and what Avould the struggles and 

 hardships be as I advanced, and how could I advance without cap- 

 ital or means?" Again I had a series of dreams, and this time I 

 dreanied I could lift myself up from the earth by means of rapid 

 flapping motions of my arms. In my first dream I could hardly lift 

 mvself\ip even by the greatest amount of flapping, but in each dream 

 I kept getting higher and higher until I soared away above the trees 

 and moved at a "rapid rate, but still I was under a great strain to 



