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but, rather, can we afford to do without one? 

 Answering that question for myself, I can 

 not afford to take only one. l)ut I take three 

 journals, and I will soon add another to the 

 list. We can never estimate the possible 

 value to us of just one issue. I consider 

 that the lirst numljer of Gleanings I re- 

 ceived was worth at least the price of that 

 paper for ten years from the value of just 

 one article in that issue. 



We have only to look around us a little to 

 recognize the value of intelligent literature 

 on bee-keeping. No doubt some of you are 

 acquainted with men who keep bees in old 

 boxes or logs, or possibly they have them in 

 inodern hives, but who get practically noth- 

 ing out of the Imsiness from year to year. 

 Just find out how many journals those men 

 take. 1 sometimes think that such men keep 

 bees for the excitement they get out of chas- 

 ing and hiving swai'ms. They certainly do 

 not get much else out of the business. If 

 you talk bee-journal to them they will get 

 off a little sermon about those follows who 

 write for the journals having no other ob- 

 ject in view than that of giving advice which 

 will lead to disaster. 



They will tell you that if those fellows 

 have something good they are not going to 

 give it to the public, as it would injure their 

 business. I say, find such a man and you 

 have a fair example of the man who would 

 not invest a dollar in a bee-journal. Very 

 rarely we find a man who has hail very good 

 success who does not think it worth while to 

 subscril^e for a bee-journal. He probably 

 has nothing in particular against them; Init 

 so long as he gets a fair yield of honey, and 

 a fair price for it, he is satisfied. He would 

 probably not read a journal if he took one. 



The man who reads a bee-paper fimls out 

 what strides other men are making. It 

 points out to him the possibilities which lie 

 in his power. He takes an interest in his 

 business. 



There is, however, a point to consider, 

 other than that of learning how to get the 

 most out of our business. Let foul Ijrood or 

 some other disease get a hold upon an apiary 

 belonging to a man who knows nothing 

 about such things. He will let his i^ees go 

 from bad to worse. Diseased hives antl 

 combs will be left exposed, and this man's 

 intelligent neighbor bee-keeper soon has his 

 hands full. The man who will not read is a 

 menace to neighboring Ijee-keepers. 



Don't be afraid to read your bee-papers 

 over several times. No doubt you have 

 noticed that, after reading a fairly long arti- 

 cle on some subject, your mind fails to 

 grasp many good points that appear in a 

 following article. Next evening, however, 

 if you pick up your paper and read the arti- 

 cle which the night before seemed uninter- 

 esting, it presents itself in a new light and 

 you will get many valuable hints from it. 

 No doubt many issues go on the file without 

 our deriving much benefit from them. We 

 may have read them through, but very often 

 our minds and bodies are tired from hard 

 work, or we may be so interested at the 



time in some subject foreign to bee-keeping 

 that we fail to derive the good that we 

 would were we to read the journals thi'ough 

 several times. Our reading of bee-journals 

 is very apt to resemble "cramming" for an 

 examination. Hakvey Smith. 



Palermo, Out., March 36. 



^^ilm f?®]iFd]Fiillfe 



l^y frank M^ Glade. 



SjTell me not in broker\ measures 

 Modern farminQ does not pay, 

 )li For a farm produces chickens. 

 Andthehens.-dotheynotlay?. 





f QQs are high and going higher^ 

 Andtheprice 15 soaring fast, ^^ 

 Every time we get to [narket ^"^.^ 

 It is higher than the last. 



hfot a coop but it produces 

 •^<^mhi^\)j day an egg or two, 

 ' '-^^ So each farmer gains iiismilliORS 

 Even thouoK his hens be few: 



Every egg is very precious, 

 ^nd the hens are held in awe. 

 When a hen begins to cackle ,y 

 "'hen the farmer goes "Haw, haw, 



n the broad and busy farmyard 

 Struts a rooster now and then, 

 |ut the shrewed, be-whiskeredjarmerj 

 "only notices the hen 



Trust no rooster, howe'er showey 

 Be the feathers in his.tail. 

 Pay attention to the biddies, 

 wealth will never fail, 

 ^ ■'■ ->n - (^ ^-^^^ 



>: >^ I V T \ 



fves of farmers all remind US 



may roll in wealth some day 



we hustle to the market 



,With the epgs our pujlets \^ 



