EFFICIENCY THE KEY TO SUCCESS 



415 



3. That he does not know the life habits of bees ; 



4. That he will not employ skilled help ; 



5. That he does not intend to subscribe to bee peri- 

 odicals, or call upon other helpful agencies ; 



6. That he has not studied " the spirit of the hive " ; 



7. That he will not use Italian queens, nor watch out 

 for feed and for their enemies, but expects only to sell 

 honey, while the bees take care of themselves ; 



8. That he plans only to keep records of the weather ; 

 not of the bees, their needs, products, etc. 



Though possibly this case is exaggerated, as an ex- 

 ample, I think it is not worse than the vague state of 

 mind of many of those who would like to go into poultry 

 as a money-making opening. The above system always 

 includes a schedule, first, of the efficiency of the business 

 plans, or the actual working of a business as the Experts 

 find it in operation. In such a schedule, they mark this 

 bee man ten, twenty, thirty, and, in one case, fifty per 

 cent lacking, according to his answers to the questions. 

 On one number they mark him below zero. This was 

 the " fair deal "for the bees. He gets about a fourteen per 

 cent rating as to efficiency, and the expert comment is 

 that the intending investor is, on his own testimony,- 

 foredoomed to failure. 



Much has been said about the "fussiness" of women, 

 especially when they try to do serious things. But no 

 woman, at her fussiest, was ever so fussy as these busi- 

 ness experts of the trousered sex. In a large company, 

 I heard one of them tell how he would go to work to 

 add efficiency to the kitchen end of the home. He in- 

 stanced a kitchen, having the stove on one side the 

 room, the table on another, a closet for the kitchen 



