220 THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



The ^'Boosters' Club" 



GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, Redkey, Indiana 



I see by the roster that the membership was increased several 

 hundred per cent this month. We have money in the treasury. As 

 this is a "Booster" club, we will take this occasion to point with 

 pride to the auspicious beginning. (Note — All big things must 

 have a beginning.) We think that we will be able to point with 

 some more pride next month. Do you know what a "Booster" is? 

 A "Booster" is a man who boosts. Are you "It ?" 



The regular salaried poet went on a vacation this month but the 

 following is presented for discussion. (My wife says there is more 

 truth than poetry in it, but she is prejudiced — she is afraid of bees, 

 anyhow — one "Boosted" her out of the apiary yesterday.) 



"Boost," beekeepers, all together, 

 "Boost" in fair or stormy weather — 

 If we prosper, we must lend 

 All our efforts to the end 

 Of "boosting" sales, and "boosting" price, 

 Keeping everybody feeling nice, 

 Then "BOOST." 

 This concludes the opening exercises of the club, and we will 

 all prepare to take a nap while we listen to the discourse. 



Our Road to Success— Do It Ourselves 



"And the mother lark fluttered home the next morning, and 

 called her children around her and told them that at last they must 

 get ready to move their home from the field of grain, as she had 

 heard the farmer tell his sons that they must cut the grain them- 

 selves. They had asked their friends, neighbors and kin-folks to 

 help, and they had promised but they had their own grain to cut and 

 their own axes to grind, and so had failed to come, but now the grain 

 was ripe and wasting, the farmer and his sons were coming in the 

 morning to DO IT THEMSELVES, AND IT WOULD BE DONE !" 



— (Old Nursery Tales.) 



We beekeepers have been asking our friends, neighbors and kin- 

 folks to help up advertise our golden harvest of honey, but they 

 have had their own axes to grind and business to attend to, and it 

 has not been done. This is a "booster" club, and we have no time 

 to "knock" them for not doing it for us. If we knew the truth. 



