HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



of comb, and the storing of honey against a 

 rainy day goes steadily on. 



With a knowledge of these facts does not 

 the aspect of the hive change from a com- 

 monplace-looking box to a veritable kingdom, 

 presided over by royalty, which challenges our 

 interest and admiration, and at once inspires 

 in us the purpose to become the better ac- 

 quainted with it? 



Another thing we should not overlook and 

 we are liable to do so if we look at the hive 

 only from the standpoint of the number of 

 pounds of honey it is likely to produce is, 

 that bees bear a close and vital relation to the 

 matter of fruit production in the neighbor- 

 hood. The real mission of the honey bee after 

 all is not the production of honey, for that is 

 only incidental, but rather to insure the proper 

 pollination of our fruit blossoms, and were 

 it not for their active agency in this depart- 

 ment of agricultural life, the fruit output of 

 the country would be astonishingly small. 



A careful examination of the body of a 

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