THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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with cautionary labels, comb honey is 

 much more likely to reach its destination 

 safely than when sent by express. Why 

 honey is ever sent by express 1 can't 

 imagine. The rates are very much higher, 

 and damage is always sure to follow. 



Plurality of queens is the subject of a 

 very interesting article in this issue of the 

 Review. The clippingof thequeens" stings 

 and mandibles is certainly novel, if not 

 entirely new. This whole thing is turning 

 out about as 1 predicted, viz., that it is 

 possible to introduce two or more queens 

 to a colony during a honey flow, but all 

 except one will disappear with the end of 

 the season. Whether it will prove profit- 

 able to rear and introduce an extra lot of 

 queens each spring is yet an open ques- 

 tion, with none too hopeful an aspect, but 

 I would not like to say that nothing prac- 

 tical will come of it. 



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Superseding Queens, whether it shall 

 be left to the bees, or attended to sys- 

 tematically, by the bee-keeper, has been 

 for a long time, an open question with me. 

 I did think that Messrs. Taylor and Town- 

 send had settled it for me, in favor of 

 leaving it to the bees, and 1 believe I said 

 as much in the Review, but, since then, I 

 have received articles on the other side 

 containing arguments that I believe are 

 at least worthy of consideration. They 

 will appear in early issues of the Review; 

 and judging from present indications, this 

 topic is going to bring on one of the hot- 

 test discussions that has appeared in the 

 Review in years. Let it come. Either 

 one class or the other is losing m.oney — 

 let's find out which one. 



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Avoid Excuses. 



The older 1 grow the less inclined am I 

 to take refuge in excuses. It is better to 

 avoid the occasion for excuses. To illus- 

 trate: Mrs. Hutchinson ordered some gro- 

 ceries by telephone. Some of them were 

 needed in getting dinner. We were just 

 sitting down to the noon day meal when 

 the grocer's wagon drove up. A prolonged 

 search revealed the fact that only a part 

 of the order had been put up. As a re- 

 sult, we ate our bread without butter. 

 The groceryman was very profuse with 

 excuses; he was short of help, etc. He 

 may not lose our trade as a result of the 

 mix up, but such mishaps have a tendency 

 in that direction. 



Sometime during the last year, one of 

 the photographic magazines had a little 

 editorial on this subject. It said that some 

 artists were inclined to make excuses why 

 their pictures were no better. If the light 

 had been better, or^the exposure longer, or 

 the point of view a little different, or the 

 plate developed a little further, or of a 

 different brand, and so on, why, then, the 

 picture would have been all right. This 

 was probably true, and might be interest- 

 ing to know, but it didn't make the picture 

 any better. That a picture is poor is a 

 fact, and no amount of excuses will save it. 



If bees die in winter for lack of stores 

 no amount ' of excuses will bring them 

 to life. 



The point is, learn your business so 

 completely, do your work so thoroughly, 

 and guard every point so closely, that 

 there will be no occasion to use excuses. 



