MY BEES 



AS I have already said elsewhere, my bees 

 have contributed a few dollars a year to 

 my income, and have given me a great many 

 pounds of honey and no little amusement. 

 Some five or six years ago a newspaper para- 

 graph concerning the large amount of money to 

 be made by raising bees and selling their honey 

 caught my eye, and I had the curiosity to look 

 up the only firm in this part of the country 

 which at that time made a business of selling 

 hives fitted out with bees. My investigation 

 resulted in the purchase of a hive containing a 

 swarm of pure Italian honey-bees warranted to 

 do justice to their reputation as indefatigable 

 workers, and to make my fortune if I looked 

 after them with intelligence and perseverance. 

 The people from whom I bought my first hive 

 were full of information as to the vast amount 

 of honey and, of course, profit I was to get 



