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now selling to beginners more exten- 

 sively than perhaps any other hive- 

 Practically it operates as a fraud to 

 a greater extent than all other bee- 

 keeping articles with patents real or 

 pretended combined. I speak from 

 experience with the hive both prac- 



tically and financially. A patent on 

 the hive instead of increasing the in- 

 jury, would have lessened it very ma- 

 terially. A few dollars' charge for 

 individual rights has a wonderful eflect 

 in suggesting caution in the adoption 

 of new devices. 



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DOT HAPPY BEE MAN. 



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1 schmokes mine pipe 

 O Katri - na mine lofe, 

 Ve moves on der town 



of dose hap-py 

 und I vatclies 

 see dat gold 

 und lives 



bee mans, 

 dose bees, 

 on der legs, 

 like pig pugs,' 



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don't 

 laughs 

 prings 

 clov-er 



got to 

 till mine 

 a half 

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vork an - y more ; 



schtomack goes schplit, 



pound ef - ery day; 



so Yankees say; 



I loafs all day on der ap-ple tree shade. Or 



Ven I see dem go sch trait for Hans Brinkerhofi's flow'rs Und 



Ve schtarts a Pank quiclc ven dose bees get some svarms, Und 



I'll vash mine feet from der dirt of der plow, Und 



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Smokers furnish another case in 

 point. The ones protected by patent 

 are decidedly the best, and the ones 

 heralded as unpatented are the ones to 

 be shunned. 



It is also objected that inventions 

 are the work of many minds, and, 

 therefore, a single person 

 should not be allowed a 

 revenue from them. It is 

 true, no doubt, that inven- 

 tors draw upon the common 

 fund of knowledge amassed 

 by others, but is he who 

 is acute enough, and studi- 

 ous enough, and devoted 

 enough to combine that 

 knowledge, and make it 

 produce practical results, 

 and is, after that, suffi- 

 cient!}' enterprising to bring 

 it to the doors of .the mul- 

 titude, and to persist in ex- 

 plaining it until stubborn- 

 ness itself shall admit its 

 value, tlierefore entitled to 

 no credit ? 



There is much food for 

 thought in this subject, but 

 time and space forbid its 

 further pursuit at present, 

 but let us intelligently con- 

 sider, that we may get into 

 a proper attitude with ref- 

 erence to it. 



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schmokes mine 

 nef - er suck 

 prings in der 

 jines der 



pipe on der door. For I 



Yakob's vone bit. You see 



veallh in dot vay. Mine frau 



Un-ion right a - vay. I runs 



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haf boughted vone 

 dot king bee hef 



her shall haf vone 



for der ma-yor or 



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lee - die bee - box, 

 aw - ful schmart got 

 new gin^'liam dress, 



congress -man too 



Zhust zhammed crammed full of dose pets Vot 



Und him say to his vim-ens "Coome. coome, You 



Der childers don't got to home schtay Und 



Or pres - i - dent maybe, I guess, Und 



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^VH AX ARE YVEEUS ? 



Not botanically, or scien- 

 tilically, but specifically. 

 Do we always consider this 

 word weed in its broadest 

 sense ? What constitutes a 

 weed ? Certainly we all 

 know what common weeds 

 are, even though we do not 

 a!l do our duty in eradicat- 

 ing them, but there is a 

 class of weeds that may be 

 we do not always properh' 

 recognize as such. 



Wemayconsistentlj- class 

 anj' plant a weed that cum- 

 bers the ground to the det- 

 riment or destruction of 

 plants that are wanted for 

 useful purposes. Therefore, 

 cultivated plants become 

 weeds when there is a 

 superfluitj' of them. If there 

 are two or three more cu- 

 cumber plants in a hill than 

 can successfully grow there, 

 or this much more than is 

 needed, these surplus plants 

 are just as much weeds as 

 barn-grass or thistles. 



The point I wish to make, 

 then, is that a plant too 

 much in any place is a 



