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the top, until the height of the season has 

 paosed, v/hen an extracting supci' may be 

 given on *op. 



By this management there is no diffi- 

 culty in getting the bees at work in the 

 supers, and the number of unfinished sec- 

 tions at the etid of the season will be ex- 

 ceedingly small. There wil' be extracting 

 supers at the beginning and the ^nd. but 

 the middle of the flow, with bees and har- 

 vest at their best, will be solid, uniform, 

 finished sections of honey. With the pros- 

 pective prices for comb honey, this plan 

 appeals to me very strongly; in fact, I am 

 tempted to give it a trial, on a small scale, 

 the coming year. 



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Beware of the Force of Habit. 



There is an old and truthful saying that 

 man is a bundle of habits. Habit binds 

 us v/ith chains of steel. I have seen old 

 couples who began life poor, but now 

 possessed of thousands of dollars, deny 

 themselves even the comforts of life, to 

 say nothing of the luxuries, because 

 the saving-habit, acquired through years 

 of toil and economy, had them firmly in 

 its clutches. 



You might not think it, but I had quite 

 a struggle to break up that very habit. 1 

 do not mean to intimate that 1 am now 

 rich, far from it, but there is no longer 

 any necessity to practice som.e of the 

 petty economies of my early married life; 

 in fact, some things that were then 

 economies would now be the opposite. In 

 those days I most emphatically had more 

 time than money, and seldom spent money 

 for anything that I could make or do my- 

 self; now it is often miore profitable to 

 buy an article than to make it — to hire 

 work done than to do it myself. But it 

 was hard work to break up those old 

 habits; in fact, I caught myself just in 

 time, before they had become too firmly 

 fixed. 1 try to hold myself open to con- 

 viction; to be ready to adopt new methods; 

 to avoid getting into a rut; and not al- 

 low habit to get such a firm hold upon me 

 that I can't break away if I think best. 



As 1 close this item, my mind goes back 



in reminiscent mood to those economical 

 days of 'ong ago, and 1 hope 1 may be 

 pardoned for drawing one little picture 

 that hangs in the halls of my mem- 

 ory. My wife and 1 greatly enjoyed my 

 reading stories aloud to her, and. the first 

 winter after we were married, I wanted 

 to subscribe for the New York Ledger, 

 but felt that we could not afford to spare 

 the $3.00. Finally, I started in to save 

 the money. When I went to town I car- 

 ried my dinner in my pocket and went 

 down to the railroad station and ate it 

 there — playing I was a traveler. I re- 

 member walking five miles one day in- 

 stead of riding on the train, and thus 

 saved 15 cents. Some way my brother 

 Elmer found out what 1 was doing, and, 

 conspiring with my wife, found out how 

 much I had saved, then furnished the nec- 

 essary balance, and later 1 Vv'as surprised 

 to begin receiving copies of the Ledger. 



Now for the picture: A winter's even- 

 ing; I am seated in the big rocking chair; 

 at my right the wood-box piled high with 

 beech and maple; in front the kitchen 

 stove with the oven door swung back for 

 a foot-rest; at the left the little table with 

 shining lamp; m front of the stove, in a 

 low rocker, sits the bride of a few months, 

 knitting striped mittens for the market, 

 and listening to the stories that 1 tried to 

 read in my very best manner. 



A few more words and I am done. In 

 those days 1 was looking forward to how 

 much comfort 1 would take when 1 had 

 more money. My income now is ten times 

 greater, and yet -1 have found nothing in 

 ■ life sweeter than those dear old days. 



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Specialty Not Best For Lvery One. 



While the Review believes in and advo- 

 cates specialty, it recognizes the fact that 

 not every bee-keeper is in position to take 

 advantage of it. To illustrate: A letter 

 was recently received that read some- 

 thing as follows: 



You write so convincingly of specialty 

 that 1 am somntimes almost tempted to 

 adopt it, but I have a family of five cfiil- 



