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

 discussions, and private conversations, 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 Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, many of those of California, and several of the 

 meetings of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, 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 PROM BBB-PERIODICALS. 



Every apiarist should take and read at least one of the 

 many excellent bee-periodicals 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 intelligent and observ- 

 ing bee-keepers. Who is it that squanders his money on worse 

 than useless patents and fixtures? He y!\io " can not afford " 

 to take a bee-paper. 



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 excellencies, and all who can may well 

 call to his aid two or more of them. 



American Bbb Journal. — This is the oldest American 

 bee-paper, and the only weekly journal devoted exclusively to 

 bee-keeping in the United States. It was founded in 1861, by 

 the late Samuel Wagner, whose breadth of culture, strength of 

 judgment, and practical and historical knowledge of bee- 

 keeping, were remarkable. Even to-day those early volumes of 

 this paper are very valuable parts of any bee-keeper's library. 

 Under the able management of Mr. Thomas G. Newman, the 

 late editor, the paper made great and continuous advancement. 

 The contributors to the "American Bee Journal " are the suc- 

 cessful bee-keepers of America, and so it has a wide influ- 

 ence. It is now edited by George W. York, whose skill, enter- 

 prise, and ability, are no whit behind those who founded and 

 raised this journal to its present proud place. The publishers 



