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Or how to Realize the. Most Money with the Smallest Expenditure of Capital 
and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 
PUBlilSIIED QUABTBKLY. 
7ol.T" MEDINA, 0., JAN. 1, 1873, N<>. l. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
'.qljF.i.t.ow Novices : — We must eon- 
ihj fees to a feeling of not being quite 
as much at homo here, just yet, as in 
the old American Bee Journal, but we 
trust wo shall all, in time, feel all the 
liberty here that we have there en- 
joved. Remember at all times that 
Improved Bee Culture is our end 
aim. and wo trust no one will 
csitate to give any facts from ex- 
perience. because they may tend to 
overthrow any particular person or 
■hobby." 
If any of our especial plans don't 
work, or if anything we c advertise 
has had its value over-estimated, 
here in these pages is the place of 
all others to set the error right. 
Please don';, be hasty or prematurely 
positive, and when one of our nuni- j 
her acknowledges a fault and makes 
proper reparation, the matter should 
be overlooked and friendly feelings 
renewed on both sides, at once and 
forever. 
The advances now being made in 
Bee Culture, it scents to us, must j] 
necessarily bring about individual 
losses often ; for instance, ono of us 
may have made up a quantity of 
hives for sale, and new developments 
may point out plainly that they are 
not fully adapted to the present needs 
of Bee Culture, and when you are 
satisfied of this, please do not attempt jj 
to sell them without telling your 
customer the whole truth, and making 
the price correspond. The same 
may be said of Extractors. If 
necessary to throw thorn away as 
old lumber or old metals, do not, wc 
implore you, hesitate an instant. 
Our most successful business men 
ol tlic present day, have discovered 
it to be a fact that it is more profita- 
ble to toll their customers the had 
points of their wares as well as the 
good. There arc ample opportunities 
in this world to acquire a compe- 
tence honestly. 
One of the most lamentable 
wrongs in Bee Culture is the custom 
of taking money for a “right to 
make and use" a hive, knowing that 
the buyer could “make and use - ’ a 
hive so nearly like it as to answer 
every purpose, without using a six 
OLE ONE OP THE PATENTED FEATURES 
Itwill be our especial aim to fully in 
form the public of all such trail 
sactions coming under our observa- 
tion. 
Please give facts all you can with- 
out regard to their hearing on in- 
dividuals, if they are of such a 
nature as to benefit the masses. 
Without further moralizing we will 
try and let our little Joi hnai. show 
for itself what it is; but, dear read- 
ers, wc hope you have read this care- 
fully for wc may refer to it hereafter. 
