The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-09
Aids and Helps to Bcc.KeeDcrs,

AT the outset l wish to state that |
shall not, perhaps, present ANYTHING
new to experienced bee-keepers, but
simply hints and helps to beginners. |
almost constantly receive letters from
those who seek to know the best way
to commence Bookkeeping. Many seem
10 think it matter requiring much
knowledge and instruction. One of the
most frequent questions is "Would
you advise me TO undertake it without
previous study and some practical
knowledge~ The answer to this is
plain. If you wish to keep cows, you
buy cows, and begin to learn to milk
by milking them. Ifyou wish to keep
poultry, You buy as many fowls as Won
can afford, and having done this you
are interested to know more about their
proper care, and you read about them,
watch them, and are poultry keeper
without more ado. advise you to 90
Bookkeeping in the same way. Buy
few stands, or even one, then get the
theory from bee books or iournale:
watch your bees and continue tho prac-
tice with the theory. There is nothing
about the matter that is mysterious in a
practical sense now, thanks to those
who have practically investigated the
mysteries" for lis. If you can afford
TO spend the money and can get Italian
bees in just the right hives, that is, of
course, the easiest way. If not, buy
just what you can afford to get, and as
soon as convenient, transfer the bees 10
good movable frame hives and then
ltalianize. Decide what hive you will
adopt, and do not allow yourself to
think ii must necessarily be patented
hive. The best hives, and those most
widely In use at tho present time bv
successful and scientific bee-keepers
are covered by DO patents, and can be
manufactured at one dollar and half 81
piece-or less. Always use good ma
terial, and knowing the dimensions of
the hive you adopt, you can easily oh.
tain widths and lengths that can be cut
with little waste. A word right here
10 my old experienced brother bee
keepers. You who have purchased
hives, etc, let me offer you a money
saving hint. Obtain good foot-pow-
or saw, manufacture your own hives
and save so per cent. You can easily
cut up material for twenty hives per
day. With 1t you can manufacture ey-
erything needed, from a complete hive
down to prize dovetailed sectioned
box. The Barnes saw is good one,for
this purpose. have found 1t of the
greatest practical benefit, and / doubt
If there is, or can be found, a more use.
FIJI article to the apiarist than a thoro-
nghly good foot-power saw. Beginners
in Bookkeeping will find it pleasure TO
make their own supplies, and will take
pride IN doing 1t well, and carefully.
The little all once in the savings bank
or the few dollars wisely laid away In
the ancestral stocking. will come han.
dy by-and by to purchase from your
nearest supply dealer in honey and wax
extractors, comb foundations. and 9th
err necessities for your apairy. One
piece ofadvice deem very necessary:
Remember you cannot expect to begin
where ether people have arrived by
years of practical labor and study.
There is no royal road TO success in this
business, any more than in any ether
branch of industry. Perseverance,, pa
tience, and, withal, little COURAGE.
are the requisites. Skill will come In
doing what is necessary, and in no 9th
or way. j. G. BINGHAM.
McGrawville, N. Y.
-[Moore's Rural New Yorker.