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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Plum City, Wis., Aug. 1st, 1914 

 The Beekeepers' Review: — Glad 

 to see the yellow cover appear 

 again. Hope it will continue. 



This has been a rather poor year 

 here. Cold and rainy, then it turn- 

 ed hot and dry. We had plenty of 

 bees ready for work, but they just 

 about held their own until July. 

 Will get between 30 and 4 pounds 

 of extracted honey per colony, 

 spring count. 



Yours very truly, 



F. C. SMITH. 



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They Pay Dollars While 

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The young 20 to 25 days old sell 

 for 40 to 60 cents each (accord- 

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 markets are always clamoring for 

 them. 



Each Pair of Pigeons will 

 raise 18 to 22 young a year 



They will clear you above all 

 expenses, $5.00 a year per pair. 

 They breed the entire year. 

 Twenty minutes daily will care 

 for 100 pairs. 



Always penned up out of the way 

 Very small space required 



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Social Benefits of Cooperation 



Cooperation encourages and de- 

 mands higher standards in bee- 

 keeping practice^ the members of 

 any successful cooperative take on 

 increased self-respect. With an im- 

 provement in the product comes a 

 pride in the product. A neat little 

 sermon might here be preached 

 upon the effect of the quality of 

 one's work upon character, but I 

 will refrain, except to say that this 

 pride in fine work is going to have 

 an important influence in keeping 

 the young people from leaving the 

 country. It is a significant thing to 

 see in the honey houses and shops 

 of the western beemen; the bee- 

 men, their wives, sons and daugh- 

 ters, carefully cleaning and packing 

 the honey in new shipping cases. 

 The judging of the color and finish 

 with the eye and carefully weighing 

 the sections and cases stimulates 

 self respect. It is a fine training 

 for accuracy in all the work that 

 follows. The better part of the 

 worker's nature goes into the work. 

 Here is what Ruskin said along 

 this line, "It may be proved with 

 much certainty, that God intends 

 no man to live in this world with- 

 out working; but it seems no less 

 evident that he intends every man 

 to be happy in his work. It was 

 written "In the sweat of thy 

 brow" but it was never written 

 "In the breaking of thy heart." 

 The breaking of the heart in agri- 

 culture has driven the young peo- 

 ple away to the cities. The disorgan- 

 ization of the- country is largely 

 responsible for it. In the getting to- 

 gether and doing things joyfully 

 there is life and happiness. In Ger- 

 many they have a word the children 

 especially use in their play, 

 "Mittmachen." We have no word 

 in English quite to equal it. But 

 doing things together, teamwork, 

 is what we need. Country life must 

 be organized and the local, social, 

 educational, cooperative beekeepers' 

 association we hope will play its 

 part in tliis most significant move- 

 ment of our time. 



Out in the Rockies lies a little 

 valley twenty-five miles off the 

 main line of a transcontinental rail- 

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