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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



735 



continually surprised at finding people who are trying to keep 

 bees without giving themselves the least trouble to learn the 

 business in which they are engaged. They have no apicultu- 

 ral manual to consult when any difficulty arises. They do not 

 take a bee-journal, and therefore get no suggestive hints. 

 They are " going it blind." This is the great source of fail- 

 ure. It is the same in other occupations. A man starts at 

 storekeeping. He is ignorant of goods, markets, and the 

 wants of customers. Before long, he is sold out. 



The great cause of agricultural depression to-day is ignor- 

 ance of the foundation principles of farming. Any fool can 

 grow crops while the richness of a virgin soil lasts. But to 

 keep that soil up to its primitive fertility, and get as good 

 crops when the land has been tilled for half a century as were 

 yielded at first, is another matter. 



In a recent number of the Kansas Parmer, a man told how 

 he raised 64 bushels of wheat to the acre. First year, cab- 

 bages with 60 tons of barnyard manure per acre. Second 

 year, potatoes with no manure. Third year, 64 bushels of 

 wheat with no manure. With such a yield wheat would give 

 a living profit even a 50 cents a bushel. 



It is absurd for people to embark in a business they know 

 nothing about, and then when they fail abuse the business. 

 They should kick themselves. The complaint we hear so 

 often that farming doesn't pay is a confession of incompetency. 

 It is the same with bee-keeping. No one abuses the business 

 who is an apiarist, and not merely a bee-keeper. 



Bee-Keeping for ministers. 



Many ministers have insufficient incomes, that need sup- 

 plementing either by home missionary grants or imitation of 

 the apostle Paul's example, who said: " These hands have 

 ministered to my necessities and them that were with me." 

 As an expedient in the way of self-help, bee-keeping is worthy 

 of consideration. It is not hard physical work, nor does it 

 require an exhaustive putting forth of brain-power. It gives 

 gentle exercise in the open air, brings into contact with the 

 forces and beauties of nature, and is a most interesting, fas- 

 cinating study. A recent writer on the subject calls it " the 

 pleasant occupation of tending bees." 



Bee-keeping is, moreover, quite a clerical pursuit. Some 

 of the most distinguished apiarists have been ministers. 

 Langstroth, Dzierzon, Quinby, Harbison, Miner, Mahin and 

 others are all familiar and noted names of clerical bee-keep- 

 ers. The late Rev. J. Vogeler, Missionary to the Indians at 

 Moravian Town, Ont., stated in a letter published in the Can- 

 ada Parmer of Feb. 1, 1S64, that in 1843 he obtained a 

 swarm of bees from a hollow tree in the woods, and the profits 

 from that wild swarm had, in 20 years, paid for a farm of 

 219 acres of land. Not to multiply instances, the following 



capital story, copied from the Mark Lane Express, the lead- 

 ing agricultural journal in Great Britain, doubly bears on the 

 matter in hand, being at once an example of clerical and 

 profitable bee-keeping : 



A bishop was holding his first visitation of the clergy in 

 his diocese in a town in one of the Midland counties. Among 

 those assembled he soon discovered an old college acquaint- 

 ance whom ho had not seen for a great number of years, but 

 whom he greeted with all the warmth of a renewed friend- 

 ship. On comparing notes with his friend, the bishop learned 

 with regret that he was still a curate in a country village, at a 

 stipend of a hundred pounds a year, and that he had a wife 

 and large family to support. The worthy curate, however, 

 invited the bishop to spend a day with him before he left the 

 neighborhood, and the latter, not wishing to appear proud, 

 accepted the invitation. 



On reaching the parsonage, he was surprised to find his 

 friend's wife an elegantly dressed lady, who received him 

 without any of the embarrassment which a paucity of means 

 is apt to occasion in those who feel its pressure. The children, 

 also, were all well dressed and looked like anything rather 

 than as having suffered in any way from the pinch of poverty. 



But the good bishop's surprise was still greater when he 

 sat down to partake of a repast, little short of siimptuous in 

 all its appointments. Knowing that his friend was originally 

 a poor man, he considered that he must have received a for- 

 tune with his wife. After, therefore, the latter and the chil- 

 dren had withdrawn, the bishop expressed a fear that his 

 friend had gone to an injurious expense to entertain him, and 

 that it would entail privation upon him afterward. " Not at 

 all," replied the curate; "I can well afford to entertain an old 

 friend once in a while without inconvenience." 



" Then," rejoined the bishop, "I must congratulate youi 

 I suppose, on having received a fortune with your good lady?'' 



" You are wrong again, my lord," replied the poor curate. 



More mystified than ever, the bishop resumed: "Then 

 how is it possible for you to have those comforts around you 

 that I see, out of a hundred a year?" 



"Oh, my lord, as to that, I am a large manufacturer as 

 well as a clergyman, and employ many operatives, which 

 bring me in an excellent living. If you will walk with me to 

 the back of the premises, I will show you them at work." 



He accordingly took him into the garden, and showed him 

 at the back of the house a large and splendid apiary, the 

 source of the curate's prosperity. 



The bishop never forgot the circumstance, nor did he ever 

 fail to make use of it as an argument and example, for when 

 he afterwards heard some poor curate complain of the scanti- 

 ness of his income, he would cut the matter short by exclaim- 

 ing, "There, there; let's have no more grumbling. Keep 

 bees, like Mr. . Kee'p bees! Keep bees !" 



GoWeu's Feeder ! 



Bee- Keepers :— We can furnish the Golden 

 Combined Feeder aiidHive-Cover, with- 

 out Feed Dish [as the Simplicity or any disti 

 answersj, direct Irom factory at the following: 

 prices: 1 made up. 30 cents; 1 in the liat. 25 

 cents; 10 iu the flat. $2.00. All orders sent to 

 The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



For large orders, write the undersigned for 

 special prices. J. A. GOI.BEN, 



45A13t KEINEKSVILLE, OHIO. 



Mention the A-mcriain Be. Journal, 



Promptness Is What Counts ! 



Honey-Jars. Shipping--Caees, and every- 

 thing: that bee-keepers use. Koot's 

 Goods at Koot'8 Prices^ and the 



best. shii)plii|2* point in liie country. 

 Dealer in Honey and Beeswax. Cata- 



iT^MaL" Ave. WaltcF S. Poiuler 



INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 



TAKE NOTICE! 



"DEFORE placing your orders for SUP- 

 PLIES, write for prices on 1-Piece Bass- 

 wood Sections, Bee-Hives, Shipping -Crates, 

 Frames. Foundation, Smoliers. etc. 



PAOE & L'VOX MFG. CO. 



NEW LONDON, WIS. 

 MenUon the AjmerUxtn Bee JmunwA, 



List of Honey and Beeswax Dealers 



Most of whom Quote in this Journal. 



CblcagOf Ills. 



J. A. LamON, 43 South Water St, 



S. T. Fish & Co.. 189 South Water St. 



R. A. Burnett & Co.. 163 South Water Street. 



New York, N. Y. 



F. I. Sage & Son, 183 Reads Street. 

 HiLDRETH Bros. & Seoklken. 



120 & 1'22 West Broadway. 

 Chas. Israel & Bros.. 486 Canal St. 

 Francis H. Leooett & Co., 128 Franklin St. 



Kauoas City, ITIo. 



C. C. Clemoms & Co., 423 Walnut St. 



BaSalo, N. Y. 

 Batterson & Co., 167 & 169 Scott St. 



Hamilton, Ills. 

 Chas. Dadant & Son. 



Phlladelpbta, Pa. 

 Wm. a. Selser, 10 Vine St. 



Cincinnati, Olilo. 

 C. F. MnTH & SON. cor. Freeman & Central ava. 



Itiiiders for this size of the American 

 Bee Journal we can furnish for 7.5 cents 

 each, postpaid; or we will club it with the 

 Bee Journal for a year— both for .*1.I50. We 

 have a few of the old size (6x0) Binders 

 left, that we will mail for only 40 cents 

 each, to close them out. 



Comb Honev, 



Extracted Honey, 



and BEESWAX. 



Spot Cash paid for Goods at Market Prices. 



Francis H. Leggett & Co., IVew York. 



THE PRIDE OF THE ADIRONDACKS. 



Tbe new l":ii'k Fence, ■.';) miles loni;. Elk hi>.'h. 

 Buffalo stronL'. P^awn tiyhl. 11) roils hetween tree- 

 posts, roupbest proninl ever leiicert Built bv 



PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Mich. 



Mention the American lieeJmimal. 



SAVE 

 MONEY 



ITALIAN QUEENS 



If vou want flret-chips 



POR Busrxiiss, 



Foundation at Wholesale }*iiee.sr llive«, 



suited for the South, or SI PP1.IES, send tor 

 Price-List— to 



J. P. H. BROW.\, A^ousTA, 



