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GL,EANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



[The editor does not object to having his 

 opinions assailed. If he can not stand a lit- 

 tle criticism he had better step down and 

 out of his position. But there is a kind of 

 criticism that might better be modified; for, 

 instead of correcting, it stings and antago 

 nizes. One who criticises in this spirit, to 

 pay back a score or "to get even, ' ' never 

 helps but retards progress. Honest criti- 

 cism should be made for the sole purpose of 

 correcting a mistake or fault. 



I have long ceased to think that one frame 

 could be adapted to all localities and to all 

 kinds of men. Personally I have preferred 

 the regular Hoffman frame with shortened 

 top-bars for our locality; and most of the 

 boys who come to work for us, although 

 prejudiced 'in favor of some other frame, 



palmetto trees is good to eat cooked, th^ 

 same as cabbage, and that is what Mr- 

 Poppleton is after with ax in hand. The 

 palmetto-leaves fell right and left, and we 

 secured three cabbage-heads and brought 

 them home with us. 

 West Groton, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1906. 



HOW MANY COLONIES SHALL A MAN KEEP? 



The Question of Handling Men. 



BY HARRY LATHROP. 



On page 372 of the Bee-keepers' Review 

 for December, Editor Hutchinson answers a 

 letter of mine on the subject of his advice 

 to bee-keepers to keep more bees. I feel 



AMONG THE FLORIDA PALMETTO-TREES, 



gradually grow to like the Hoffman; and 

 when they go elsewhere that seems to be 

 the frame they adopt. The new metal- 

 spaced Hoffman, so far as they have tried 

 it, they like even better.— Ed.] 



CABBAGE-PALMETTO TREES OF FLORIDA. 



BY D. H. COGGSHALL. 



Last January Mr. Wm. A. Selser kindly 

 invited my wife and me to go with him up 

 to White City through what I call one of the 

 jungles of Florida, and I inclose a picture of 

 Mr. Selser and Mr. 0. O. Poppleton harvest- 

 ing cabbage in this jungle. Mr. Selser is a 

 little timid, so he hid behind one of the cab- 

 bage-leaves. My camera tells it to you bet- 

 ter than I can. 



I might say that the heart of cabbage- 



that he has treated me very fairly in his re- 

 ply, and, to tell the truth, I don't think he 

 could treat any one any other way if he tri- 

 ed. I wrote that letter just to stir up the 

 giant and see what he would say. I tnink I 

 have the laugh on him because he practical- 

 ly admits that his advice is good because 

 "only a few will take it anyway." In his 

 last talk, page 20 of this journal, Mr. Doo- 

 little comes out squarely against the custom 

 of booming the bee business and always giv- 

 ing the inexperienced public the rosy side. 

 I think he has hit the nail square on the 

 head; but probably this thing will go on in 

 the future as it has done in the past, and 

 people will learn only by experience that 

 bee-keeping is no easy road to wealth. 



There is one phase of the question that 

 has not been mentioned that I know of. 

 That is the question of a man's ability to stand 



