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keep myself up there. I believe this was my last dream or vision of 

 my business career, and as already indicated I Avill be successful^ 

 but only under trying circumstances, and will never arrive at that 

 point where I can live at ease so far as my business is concerned. 

 Like men in other lines of business, many troublesome things wnll 

 appear, and have to be endured. I have already passed over much 

 of this and it is the saddest thought of my life, but if I can continue 

 to be successful this will be gradually overcome. Don't any one 

 think that I am a great broad-minded bee-keeper, for I am not, as I 

 have only mastered a few things in one industry. The most of my 

 time has been spent meditating for the future. My business was a 

 beautiful world before me, and I formed it just like I wanted to. 



When an apiary was well established and neat in appearance I 

 would remark "that is a splendid apiary, but the itest and most at- 

 tractive one we have not yet established, just over there a few miles 

 further," and on I went over the country establishing my business. 

 Dear reader, don't try to be a great bee-keeper, for there can only 

 be one or two great ones in each generation. There is no use try- 

 ing, but loose sight of this and feel as if you are the smallest and 

 the most dependent, and in this condition you will seek help or guid- 

 ance from every known source, and as the writer has obtained it so 

 will you, and by and by you will come to your own in the end as 

 have those in our industry. 



In these few remarks I have given my credentials as a bee- 

 keeper, viz. : "Why I am a bee-keeper, why I have been successful, 

 and my past, present and future career as a bee-keeper made clear." 



Plan for Management of Prime Swarm Where No 

 Increase Is Desired. 



By H. C. GADBERRY, Miami, Missouri. 



'•WN almost any well regulated apiary there will be an occasional 

 Jl swarm. Here is a plan for taking care of the swarm without 

 making an}' increase, and producing both comb and extracted 

 honey in the same hive. 



Hive the swarm and return it to the home stand. Remove the 

 old brood chamber from the old stand and place new swarm on the 

 old stand ; remove all supers and select a frame containing the 

 youngest brood; place this in the center of the new brood nest and 

 fill up new brood chamber with drawn combs or starters. A frame 

 of wired-in foundation may be used on the outsides. The work of 

 preparing new brood chamber now being completed, place a queen 

 excluder over the new colony. On top of this place the supers froni 



