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mers, with address, and a copy will be forthcoming to them. If 

 everybody "gets busy" and orders copies mailed as they should, our 

 representatives at Washington would "take notice" and more than 

 the present edition be furnished should we require them. It surely 

 is an opportunity all should take advantage of. We submit below 

 what Dr. Phillips thinks of this bulletin. 



April 9, 1915. 

 Mr. E. D. Townsend, 



Northstar, Michigan. 

 Dear Mr. Townsend : — 



I am sending you a copy of Farmers' Bulletin No. 653, "Honey 

 and Its Use in the Home," by Caroline L. Hunt and Helen W. At- 

 water. This bulletin is not prepared in this office but I am calling 

 this especially to your attention because I believe it is a publication 

 which will prove of considerable value to beekeepers in all parts of 

 the country. It is a bulletin which every beekeeper, every bee- 

 keeper's wife and every customer should have. It is distributed 

 free of charge on application to the Department and through mem- 

 bers of Congress. Beekeepers may be able to have their custo- 

 mers supplied through their Representatives and Senators. 



It will pay us all to see that this Bulletin is widely distributed. 



Very truly yours, 



E. F. PHILLIPS, 

 In Charge Bee Culture Investigations. 



The Mistakes and Lessons of a Semi-Amateur 



EARL F. TOWNSEND, Milford, Michigan 



I had kept bees some years before with reasonable success and 

 after twenty years spent in the drug business was compelled to 

 leave it for some out-of-doors occupation for health's sake and 

 instinctively turned to bees, the vocation which I knew next best 

 to the drug business. I sold my drug store in March and shortly 

 thereafter purchased 20 colonies of bees, setting one-half of them 

 at my home in the village and the other half on the farm of a 

 friend three miles out. After looking around most all summer 

 for a suitable small farm in what would be considered a good bee 

 country we finally in August found what suited us in Milford, about 

 fifty miles from where we were living. On account of wishing to 

 have the children enter school in our new home as soon as school 



