. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 21, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 745. SAMPLE OF DK. MILLER'S " PAT ; Half-bushel fl6) Carmen No. 3, weigh 28-!-; lbs.; 3 largest weighed ti lb. and '>}i oz. The stick lying on them is a foot rule. Photographed Oct. 11, comb honey for 1(5. IT and 18 cents, when the best cash offer I received was 11 and 12 cents. THOSE "HINTS ON HIRED HELP.'' Tell Mr. Hyde (page 564, "Hints on Hired Help in the Apiary") to be thanlvful indeed that his ideal helper is not to be found. If conditions would regulate hired help
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 21, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 745. SAMPLE OF DK. MILLER'S " PAT ; Half-bushel fl6) Carmen No. 3, weigh 28-!-; lbs.; 3 largest weighed ti lb. and '>}i oz. The stick lying on them is a foot rule. Photographed Oct. 11, comb honey for 1(5. IT and 18 cents, when the best cash offer I received was 11 and 12 cents. THOSE "HINTS ON HIRED HELP.'' Tell Mr. Hyde (page 564, "Hints on Hired Help in the Apiary") to be thanlvful indeed that his ideal helper is not to be found. If conditions would regulate hired help to do all we want to exact of them. Mr. Hyde and a lot of the rest of us would be hired help. It provokes rae as much as anyone to see hired help do things awkwardly, carelessly, or without thought or judgment, that a little reasoning would obviate. And yet these very things are necessary, or there would be no hired help—all would be owners—for it doesn't cost much to start with bees. Its details, especially, are our capital. So do not expect hired help to furnish the capital, and give you the lion's share of the earnings. A banker once asked for a cashier. Said his friend; " I can send you an honest young man. who knows nothing-of bankinii;." "That is the man I want," exclaimed the banker, "for I can teach him my meth- ods and system, and he will not have to unlearn knowledge that I do not want in my ; Much so with hired help, especially in the apiary. Either make a partner of the man at once, or hold yourself in reserve, and let him realize he is only a part of the machine. LOSS OF BEES BY COMBS MELTING DOWN. In regard to Mr. Gerelds" loss of bees by melting down (page 5k6), the lack of water I do not believe had anythinir to do with the bees. All the colonies probably melted down within the space of an hour: when the breeze lulled had they been out in a 10-acre field the loss would not have been lO percent, if that. We have lon
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