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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. 



VOL. XX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, OCT. 15, 1907. NO. 10 



The Highest Success Gomes as the 

 Result of Knowing How. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON 



T AST summer I received the photograph 

 -B from which the accompanying' frontis- 

 piece was made, and I admired it greatly. 

 The point of view, the balance, the back- 

 ground, the exposure, the development, 

 printing and toning were all perfect, and 

 appealed strongly to my photographic 

 sense. As a rule, white hives in a photo- 

 graph are simply white paper. 1 don't 

 know whether the half-tone will show it, 

 but there is a texture, a sort of color, to 

 these hives— they are not dead, glaring 

 white. If the letter head accompanying 

 the picture had not read "Homer M. 

 Matthewson, Portrait and View Artist, 

 Birghamton. N. Y.," I would have known 

 that it was the work of a professional. 



1 wrote Mr. Matthewson and told him 

 that I should like to use it in the Review, 

 a:id asked him if he could not furnish a 

 "story" to go with it. He replied that he 

 was pretty busy; that during each week 

 of August, September and October he 

 attendr-d a different fair, and used his 

 camera making tin types, but he would 



try and write something. Before going 

 north to build another bee cellar, I sent 

 away the photograph to have a cut made, 

 Mr. Matthewson sent the promised arti- 

 cle, and it was forwarded to me from 

 Flint, but, for some reason, failed to reach 

 me. There was not time to get another 

 article, nor to have some other cut made, 

 so I am using the cut and writing the 

 "story'" myself: although it probably is 

 not so interesting and appropriate as the 

 one written by Mr. Matthewson. The best 

 that I can do is to call attention to the 

 beauty of the picture, all the result of 

 "knowing how," and point the moral that, 

 whatever your business it pays to "know 

 how." Read all of the books and journals, 

 attend conventions, visit bee-keepers, and, 

 above all experiment and think for your- 

 self. Resolve that you will know all 

 about your business that it is possible to 

 know, then you may expect the results to 

 be like this picture. 



Flint, Mich., Oct. 1, 1907. 



