. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 552 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 27, <F<rs eSOROB W. YORK, - Edtter. PCBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, IIS AUcblgaa - CHICAGO, ILL. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Kntered at the PostrOfflce at ChicaKO as Second-Class VoLfflVI. CHICAGO, ILL, AUG. 21,1896. No. Begfinners and Bee-Books.—It seems strange that any begiDners in bee-keeping will think of getting along without a good book on the subject. It would save them ask- ing many simple questions, and especially from pestering older bee-keepers, oue
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 552 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 27, <F<rs eSOROB W. YORK, - Edtter. PCBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE W. YORK & COMPANY, IIS AUcblgaa - CHICAGO, ILL. $ a Year—Sample Copy Sent Free. [Kntered at the PostrOfflce at ChicaKO as Second-Class VoLfflVI. CHICAGO, ILL, AUG. 21,1896. No. Begfinners and Bee-Books.—It seems strange that any begiDners in bee-keeping will think of getting along without a good book on the subject. It would save them ask- ing many simple questions, and especially from pestering older bee-keepers, oue of whom (who is in our Question-Box corps, and who lives east of Illinois) says this in a private letter : Me. Editor:—I find in my own experience, that If I would write to all the querists who write me (and don't even send stamps for reply), that I would have quite a handful. It surprises me that there are so many who say to me (and I of course get but a few of them), " Why, you can tell me this at once, with no ; They don't think, I suppose, that I had to be at the trouble to learn it, or that my time is of any value. Well, I say to them all, " Get a bee-book, study it, and you will then ; I get six or eight letters a week, now—sometimes I have had 20 or more—asking foolish questions. You, as publisher of the American Bee Journal, have to use some consideration in the matter, but even In that case, why should any one sup- pose a bee-paper Is a treatise on bee-keeping ? I have written three letters to-day in answer to those who ask me why the bee-papers don't give more information to be- ginners. My only reply can be, that beginners are supposed to know first principles, and that bee-pnpers are published to keep their subscribers in touch with the bee-world, and to post them on new ideas and new theories as they are advanced. I am pleased to know from week to week, that the Ameri- can Bee Journal, in your hands, is fulfilling its mis
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