lo Aids to Success, 



LEARN FROM OTHERS. 



Great good will also come from visiting and even work- 

 ing for a time with other bee-keepers. Note their meth- 

 ods, hives, sections, etc. Strive by conversation 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 conservatory of scientific truths, valuable hints, and 

 improved instruments and methods. And the apt atten- 

 tion — rendered possible by your own experience — which 

 you will give to essays, discussions, and private conversa- 

 tions, will so enrich your mind that you will 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 JOURNALS. 



Every apiarist should take and read at least one of the 

 many excellent bee journals that are issued in our country. 

 It has been suggested that Francis Ruber'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 intel- 

 ligent and observing bee-keepers. Who is it that squan- 

 ders 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 those valuable papers to the exclusion of the 

 others. Each has its peculiar excellencies, and all who 

 can may well call to his aid two or more of them. 



