254 Beekeeping 



the good beekeeper gets an adequate return in less abundant 

 seasons. The ideals toward which the beekeeper should 

 work are : (1) to handle the bees as little as possible ; (2) to 

 manipulate them only when he has some definite object in 

 view ; (3) to follow a definite system, not based on rules but 

 on a knowledge of bees, capable of modification as occasion 

 may arise, but working for one end maximum honey- 

 production. 



