. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 28 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL April to do. It is important in the lifi oi the people, and it is dignified. To think thai a factory is more import- ant than an apiary, or a manufac- turer more dignified than a bee- keeper is a mistake. The boasted high efficiency of up-to-date industry is something new, something modi rn, something smacking of the Nine- teenth and Twentieth Centuries. The efficiency of the hive is old, even classic, linking itself with the days of David and Solomon, r Virgil or Aristotle. Ami to an efficiency like unto that of the hive does
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 28 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL April to do. It is important in the lifi oi the people, and it is dignified. To think thai a factory is more import- ant than an apiary, or a manufac- turer more dignified than a bee- keeper is a mistake. The boasted high efficiency of up-to-date industry is something new, something modi rn, something smacking of the Nine- teenth and Twentieth Centuries. The efficiency of the hive is old, even classic, linking itself with the days of David and Solomon, r Virgil or Aristotle. Ami to an efficiency like unto that of the hive does the bee- keeper himseli aspire. The roai oi the city is something to hurt both eat - and souls. The hum of the hive is of the very stuff of quietness, and peace and poise. Sometimes it seems as though per- haps the words beekeeper, beekeep- ing, may be part of the trouble. Per- il, ips, if we care much for a greater show of respect from those who are steeped in the ways and the phrase ..f the marketplace, we should be to them always as the moon is to the earth. Show them only one side. and let that be the business side, the side of the honey production. Call yourself a honey producer, and see if that doesn't help. It utterly changes the picture. Say beekeeper t" me, for instance, and I see the most charming things—white hives on green grass under the trees, prob- ably in an old orchard. I have even a queer trick of putting a lovable old man into the picture, an old man full of rich philosophies, doing things quietly and a bit leisurely, tit course, that is really absurd, because it has been given me to have a wide enough acquaintance among bee- keepers to know that they are not always lovable old men! If one who knows somewdiat of the beekeeping world thus unconsciously persists in inaccuracies in a generalized picture, may not our friends of the factory ami the conn tinghousc do the same? Say beekeeper to them, and who knows what they see? Probably they conjure Up a men
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