The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . >onier, Pa. With aspirit of indepeuilenee, and a Rood deal of self-deuialsometimes borderiiiff ui)on hardship, young- Millerworked his way through school, g-raduating at UnionColleg-e, Schenectady, N. Y., at the age of 22. Unlikemany boys who go through college s(!lf supported,running into delit at the end o
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . >onier, Pa. With aspirit of indepeuilenee, and a Rood deal of self-deuialsometimes borderiiiff ui)on hardship, young- Millerworked his way through school, g-raduating at UnionColleg-e, Schenectady, N. Y., at the age of 22. Unlikemany boys who go through college s(!lf supported,running into delit at the end of their course, ouryoung friend graduated with a surplus of someseventy odd dollars, over and aliove his current ex-penses at school: hut, as we sluill presently see, itwius at the expense of an otherwise strong constitu-tion. He did not then, as he does now, the im-portance of oI serving- the laws vX health. Instead oftaking rest he immediately took a course in medi-cine, graduating from the Universitj of Michigan atthe ag-e of 25. After settling- down to practice, poor. DR. C. C. MILLER. health, he says, coupled with a ii<i-\-(ius anxiety as tohis fitness for the position, drove him from the fieldin a year. He then clerkeil, ti-aveled, and had a natural talent for music, which by hardstudy he so developed that he is now one of the fin-est musicians in the cotuitry. If you will refer tothe preface to Roots Curriculum for the Piano (a?work, by the way. which is possessed oi- known inalmost every liouseiiold where music is ai)preciatedi,you will see that this same Ur. Miller renderedmuch and imjiortant aid to the author in his?work. In this lie wrote much of the fingering; andbefore the Curriculum was given to the printers forthe last time, Mr Ro(ji submitted the reviswl proofsto the doctor foi- final correction. His musical compositionsaresimpleand delightfuland you would be surprised to learn that one or twoof the songs which are somewhat known were com-pos
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