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series of many oiityards and much help, it is rather the one-man 

 business that we will just now discuss, for many people who can 

 be successful in a business whose every detail they can oversee 

 are likely to fail when it comes to organizing a system and dele- 

 gating the actual operations to hired help. 



A Minister. — As a first example there is the case of a Presby- 

 terian minister, who took up bee-keeping exclusively several years 

 ago. He now has about three hundred colonies of bees, in four 

 yai'ds. One hundred and twenty colonies is the largest number 

 that he has in one yard, while there are but thirty colonies in his 

 smallest yard. His average return has been seven dollars per 

 colony per year. This amount is somewhat in excess of the 

 salary he probably received in serving a small congregation in a 

 country town. 



A carpenter gave up his trade to keep bees as an exclusive 

 source of livelihood, more than twenty-five years ago. When he 

 abandoned his trade and took up bee-keeping he rented a house 

 and two lots in a small town. At the end of two years he pur- 

 chased the property, and lias since occupied it as a home. During 

 the early years of his experience before he became well estab- 

 lished, there was one season of failure of the honey crop, when 

 ho found it necessary to work at his trade temporarily for a few 

 months. Aside from that, the bees have furnished his entire sup- 

 port. He has paid for his home and business, from the apiary, 

 built a better house, and added to his real estate holding. While 

 his income is not large, he has had a better support than his trade 

 could furnish, and his business is at home where he enjoys the 

 assistance and association of his family. His work is of a kind 

 that he enjoys, and not of a nature that advancing age will 

 compel him to lay aside (Fig. 8). 



A Clerk. — One might also cite the case of a shipping clerk 

 in a manufacturing establishment. Because of failing health he 

 was compelled to seek the open air. The pressing necessity of 

 providing for his family compelled him to find something that 

 Avould furnish the needed support, without demanding too heavy 

 toil from a weakened body. He has been remarkably successful 



