. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mr. G. M. DoOLiTTlE, in the May American Bee- Keeper, gives these words about new things in bee-keeping : "There is much of value and merit in nearly all the new things put forth, when properly developt, but I cannot think that the using of these things as the ' cat's-paws to pull the chestnuts out of the Are,' as some do, before they have settled down and become an establisht fact, and the booming of them inthe reading columns of a purchast pub- lic publication is very greatly in advance of what used to be termed ' highway robbery.' Catalog's, c
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mr. G. M. DoOLiTTlE, in the May American Bee- Keeper, gives these words about new things in bee-keeping : "There is much of value and merit in nearly all the new things put forth, when properly developt, but I cannot think that the using of these things as the ' cat's-paws to pull the chestnuts out of the Are,' as some do, before they have settled down and become an establisht fact, and the booming of them inthe reading columns of a purchast pub- lic publication is very greatly in advance of what used to be termed ' highway robbery.' Catalog's, circulars, price-lists and advertising columns are the places for booming, if such must be done, and not in the columns which are purchast by subscribers for their instruction and ; But it was a rather strangle coincidence that in the very same issue in which was the above paragraph, also ap- peared, in the reading columns, about two pages devoted to booming what is called " a new ; giving illustrations, etc. Mr. Doolittle should labor with Editor Hill before he " goes for " some other people. * ? * # # Mr. R. B. L,e.\hv and his company, of Missouri, have recently been given a write-up in their local newspaper, which had this to saj' in regard to them : " In 1883 R. B. Leahy, then a struggling day laborer, made his appearance in this city; and for a time found em- ployment doing odd jobs for several of our oldest citizens. Soon after his arrival here he opened a little wood-shop and began his life's work, that of building bee-hives and kin- dred supplies. His largest and most expensive piece of machinery at that time was a foot-power saw. With this he workt early and late, and by se- vere perseverance he added to his plant, little by lit- tle, until he was so fixt that his work and output at- tracted some little attention. "In 1890 he started the erec- tion of his present plant, and. being short of finances, succeeded in inter-
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