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not the same rule apply to bee-culture ? You are careful in look- 

 ing after your farm-stock every day, seeing that they are properly 

 cared for; you are at the expense of feeding them three times each 

 day. How about the bees ? Do you give them one tithe the care, 

 expense, and time, in proportion to the capital, and yet expect 

 from them ten times the net profits ? If farmers who are novices 

 in apiculture will follow in the main the suggestions that 1 have 

 briefly offered, the word failure will rarely be associated with the 

 business. Some persons will undoubtedly show by love for the 

 calling and enthusiasm in their management that they are espe- 

 cially adapted for the business. Let such go into the scientific 

 part, and adopt the modern hive with its appliances, but exchang- 

 ing gradually from the common to the framed hives, comparing 

 the results from each ; then they will have the experience and 

 knowledge necessary to enable them to act understandingly and 

 with safety. When farmers manage their bees on the same busi- 

 ness principles that they do their other farm-stock, then they will 

 fully realize that for pleasure and profit there is no branch of agri- 

 culture that will compare with it. 



I wish you all success who undertake the business of apiculture, 

 and may your anticipations be fully realized. 



The Chairman. While the lecturer was speaking of the 

 use of a veil for the protection of his face, he was asked how 

 he protected his hands in the removal of a swarm ? 



Mr. Bradley. With a pair of light leather gloves. 



Mr. Stickney. I have had a great deal of trouble with the 

 moths getting into the hive, and after a while the worms be- 

 came so numerous that they got the better of the bees. I lost 

 so many swarms, that after trying every remedy, I was obliged 

 to give it up. I wish Mr. Bradley would tell us how we can 

 keep them out of the hive, or exterminate them if they get in. 



Mr. Bradley. May I inquire what kind of a hive you 

 used? 



Mr. Stickney. The common, old-fashioned hive, with rods 

 in the center. 



Mr. Bradley. That is very easily explained. Your hive 

 sent out a swarm during the season, did it not ? 



Mr. Stickney. Yes, sir. 

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