SOURCES OF HONEY 



of experience and hard work demanded to 

 make it a success, but it can be said in all 

 truthfulness, that for the amount of time and 

 application given to this most interesting de- 

 partment of rural life, the returns are far 

 greater than in almost any other field of 

 endeavor. 



To be out in the great outdoors, amid the 

 hum of these marvellously active and won- 

 derfully intelligent creatures, is compensation 

 enough in itself for the labor we give to them. 

 But taking a more practical and perhaps 

 sordid view of the subject, there is no reason 

 in the world why any man or woman of in- 

 telligence may not, after several seasons' ex- 

 perience, make the bee a sole means of live- 

 lihood, and in the doing have their work con- 

 fined to the most delightful months of the year. 

 The practical work in the bee yard will be 

 compassed between March and November, 

 while the rest of the year may be devoted to 

 disposing of the crop or in other avenues 

 of congenial endeavor. 



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