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LEAElif FROM OTHERS. 



Great good will also come from visiting other apiarists. 

 Note their methods and apiarian apparatus. Strive by con- 

 versation to gain new and valuable ideas, and gratefully adopt 

 whatever is found, by comparison, to be an improvement upon 

 your own past system and practice. 



AID FROM CONVENTIONS. 



Attend conventions whenever distance and means render 

 this possible. Here you will not only be made better by social 

 intercourse with those whose occupation and study make them 

 sympathetic and congenial, but you will find a real conserva- 

 tory of scientific truths, valuable hints, and improved instru- 

 ments and methods. And the apt attention — rendered possible 

 by your own experience — which you will give to essays, dis- 

 cussions, and private conversations, will so enrich your mind 

 that you wiU return to your home encouraged and able to do 

 better work, and to achieve higher success. I have attended 

 nearly all the meetings of the Michigan Convention, and never 

 yet when I was not well paid for all trouble and expense by 

 the many, often very valuable, suggestions which I received. 



AID FROM BEE PUBLICATIONS. 



Every apiarist should take and read at least one of the many 

 excellent bee publications that are issued in our country. It 

 has been suggested that Francis Huber's blindness was an 

 advantage to him, as he thus had the assistance of two pairs 

 of eyes, his wife's and servant's, instead of one. So, too, of 

 the apiarist who reads the bee publications. He has the aid 

 of the eyes, and the brains, of hundreds of intelligent and 

 observing bee-keepers. Who is it that squanders his money 

 on worse than useless patents and fixtures? He who "cannot 

 afford" to take a bee-journal. 



It would be invidious and uncalled for to recommend any 

 one of these valuable papers to the exclusion of the others. 

 Each has its peculiar excellences, and all who can may well 

 secure all of them to aid and direct their ways. 



American Bee Journal. — ^This, the oldest bee paper, and the 

 only weekly publication devoted exclusively to apiculture in 



