THE BEE-KEEPERS, REVIEW. 



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man must do some thinking for himself. 

 The thinking that he does himself will 

 do him more good than the thinking 

 that some one else does for him. If I 

 can rouse him, and set him to thinking, I 

 have done well. There is no use to say 

 that you can not manage more than one 

 apiary. Mr. Coverdale tells in this issue 

 how he manages several. Mr. Gdl and 

 his wife care for six apiaries — one for 

 each dav in the week. Charley Koeppen, 

 who used to live here in Flint, cared for 

 five apiaries — did all of the work him- 

 self — and during the last three years that 

 he was here shipped nearly 60,000 pounds 

 of honey. There is no use to say that 

 you have not the capital to start out- 

 apiaries. You can get a buzz saw and 

 make the extra hives next winter, if vou 

 can't before. The next year you can 

 make the increase. The next year start 

 an out-apiary. But here I am planning 

 details again. That is for the bee-keeper 

 himself to do. If a man wants to keep 

 more bees he can do it. He can if he 

 thinks he can. .\ man can do pretty 

 nearly what he thinks he can. To think 

 is the first and most important step — the 

 rest is easy. There are great possibilities 

 in store for the future of apiculture, if 

 bee-keepers will only wake up to the 

 true condition of things. Too many bee- 

 keepers hamper themselves with some 

 other business. In these days, concen- 

 tration must be the watchword. A large 

 business can be managed much more 

 economically than a small one. 



Not only do I wish bee-keepers to suc- 

 ceed, but I wish them to meet with the 

 very highest success, so to each reader I 

 say, in all seriousness, zvhy don^t you 

 keep more bees f 



THE INFLUENCE OF FRIENDSHIP IN 

 BUSINESS. 



He who has a thousand friends has not one 

 friend to spare, 



.\nd he who has one enemy will meet him every- 

 where — LOWELL. 



It may seem out of place to couple the 

 words friendship and business, but all 

 will admit that a man's success in life is 



often largely dependent upon the friends 

 that he makes. I would be the last per- 

 son in the world to advise any one to go 

 through the world fawning upon all that 

 he meets, flattering them without stint, 

 thus trying to gain their friendship, and 

 with that their patronage. Nothing 

 would more surely defeat its own ends — 

 bring disgust instead of friendship. At 

 the same time, it must be admitted that 

 a great many men needlessly make en- 

 emies. Men who are dependent upon 

 public patronage for their living, often 

 needlessly offend customers. Let me 

 give an instance: It is so trivial that it 

 is almost laughable, but never mind, it 

 illustrates my point exceedingly well. 



P'or the last 25 years, the same barber 

 has always cut my hair. I wish it cut 

 exactly so, and I talked to him until he 

 finally learned exactly what suited me. 

 Why go to the trouble of teaching some 

 other barber ? About a year ago a new 

 barber came to work in the same shop 

 where m v barber works. I was not par- 

 ticular as to who shaved me, and all went 

 well until, when waiting to have my 

 hair cut, my turn brought me in the new 

 barber's chair. I explained that I wished 

 my hair cut, and preferred to wait for 

 "Hiram." The new barber was offended, 

 and showed it plainly. Ever since then, 

 when I go in the shop he never speaks 

 to me unless compelled to do so, and if I 

 wish him to shave me, I must ask him to 

 do so, or he pays no attention to me. 



Now, that man needlessly offended me. 

 Suppose he did think that he was 

 just as good a barber as the other man 

 (and I have no reason for thinking he 

 isn't) it was very poor policy on his part 

 to take offen.se, or to show any feeling 

 tvhatever at my preference for the other 

 man. Never mind w'hat he thought, he 

 should have kept that to himself. He 

 should have passed off the incident as of 

 no consequence whatever, and treated 

 me just as pleasantly and politelj* ever 

 afterwards when I came in the shop. 

 Had he done this, I should have thought 

 no more about it, and had a friendly 



