THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW 



oughly the first time disease appears, an dthen use care in steril'zing 

 the hives and appliances and disposing of disease infected material 

 generally, that there would be fewer outbreaks recurring in trentea 

 yards, and thereby much loss would be saved the bee-kee])ers. 

 Lansing, Mich., July, 1913. 



(Perhaps the beemen in the clover beU have been chuckling over the honey 

 crop conditions in California and other parts of the country where failure has 

 met the beemen. Read this little poem and help a little:) 



How Competition Works. 



Old Susan Kellum owned a cow and lived in Germantown ; 



In selling milk she found she must compete with Neighbor Brown. 



'Twas almost like starvation for herself and little Dick ; 



One day her boy came running in and said. "Brown's cow is sick." 



Then quickly came a twinkle in old Susan Kellum's eye ; 



It seemed she would not worrk, tho' her neighbor's cow should die. 



Brown's customers began to come to buy her milk and cream. 

 She sold a pint to Dr. Smith, a quart to Lawyer Beam, 

 And Brown himself came over then to buy a quart or tv/o : 

 'Twas then that Susan tried her best strong sympathy to show, 

 But she couldn't hide the twinkle in the corner of her eye ; 

 'Twas plain she wouldn't dress in black tho' Brown's old cow should 

 die. 



She sold new milk, skim milk and cream, sold all the cow could give, 



And little D'ick and Susan Kellum then knew just how to live ; 



A box must hold two sacks of flour, the shed a ton of coal. 



Some apples in a cofifee sack, potatoes in a hole ; 



And Susan had a twinkle in the corner of her eye ; 



It plainer grew when Brown had hung his cow's hide out to dry. 



So when our farmers have a crop, while Russia suffers drought. 



Or when a teacher gets a school by shoving someone out. 



Or when a workman gets a job with dozens standing by — 



Oh, this world is full of twinkles; have you tried to find the why? 



There are many twinkles twinkled by those who have the pie. 



Like the twinkles Susan twinkled in the corner of her eye. 



But do not censure harshl}', tho' the many starve and die 



While others live in plenty with a twinkle in their eye ; 



But let us work together for a better time to come, 



When an honest man can live without a twinkle in h's eye — ■ 



When there won't be twinkles twinkled by those who have the pie, 



Like the twinkles Susan twinkled in the corner of her eye. 



— Denver Weekly RepuhUean. 



