INTKODUCTION TO 

 PART II. 



STARTING AN APIARY. 



In apiculture, as in all other pursuits, it is all-important to 

 make a good beginning. This demands preparation on the 

 part of the apiarist, the procuring of bees, and location of the 

 apiary. 



PREPARATION. 



Before starting in the business, the prospective bee-keeper 

 should inform himself in the art. 



READ A GOOD MANUAL. 



To do this, he should procure some good manual, and 

 thoroughly study, especially that portion which treats of the 

 practical part of the business. If accustomed to read, think 

 and study, he should carefully read the whole work, but other- 

 wise he will avoid confusion by only studying the methods of 

 practice, leaving the principles and science to strengthen, and 

 be strengthened by, his experience. Unless a student, he would 

 better not take a journal till he begins the actual work, as so 

 much unclassified information, without any experience to 

 correct, arrange and select, will but mystify. For the same 

 reason he may well be content with reading a single work till 

 experience, and a thorough study of this one, make him more 

 able to discriminate ; and the same reasoning will preclude his 

 taking more than one bee-journal until he has had at least a 

 year's actual experience. 



VISIT SOME APIARIST. 

 In this work of self-preparation, he will find great aid in 

 visiting the nearest successful and intelligent apiarist. If suc- 

 cessful, such a one will have a reputation ; if intelligent, he 

 will take the journals, and will show by his conversation that 



