HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



Bees also detest the odor of a horse or 

 stable, so that I am careful to wash my hands 

 thoroughly and change my clothing after 

 driving a horse, and such a simple matter as 

 this has wrought a remarkable change in the 

 temper of the bees. I must confess that there 

 have been times when in my eagerness to rush 

 the work I have been careless, and in every 

 instance the result has been a number of 

 stings, but it has been entirely my own fault. 



The ease with which some beekeepers open 

 their hives and work among the bees has led 

 a great many people to suppose that there 

 was an acquaintance between the beekeeper 

 and his pets, but there is absolutely no truth 

 whatever in this belief. It seems strange, 

 but somehow the confident and fearless man- 

 ner in which the experienced beekeeper goes 

 among the bees seems to awe them, whereas 

 a tixnid person by his every move seems to 

 make the bees aware of the fact that he fears 

 them, and they are not slow to act when once 

 this notion possesses them. 



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