HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



Whether you keep few colonies or many, 

 make it a point to raise some queens if only 

 for the fun of the thing, for it is intensely in- 

 teresting work; and should you need a large 

 number of queens as your colonies increase, it 

 will prove a considerable saving to raise them 

 yourself. 



Those of us who keep a large number of 

 colonies know that every year or so we find 

 that we have a queen of rare worth, whose off- 

 spring are beautifully marked, remarkably 

 gentle, and as honey-gatherers are hustlers, and 

 it pays to breed from this queen, and in time 

 make all the bees of this strain. 



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