HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



of beekeepers to rear their own queens, as 

 they are able to breed from only their best 

 specimens, whose offspring have shown re- 

 markable qualities of gentleness, and are great 

 honey-gatherers. With the advent of a number 

 of new systems of queen-rearing, which will be 

 explained, one can easily see that this part of 

 the profession is not so mysterious as some will 

 suppose, and with a little experience the novice 

 will soon be able to raise as good queens as the 

 professional breeder, and not be compelled to 

 pay from $1 to $3 apiece for them. 



If left to follow their own natural impulses, 

 the bees would build only a limited number of 

 cells at the swarming time, but by the use of 

 a few simple and inexpensive appliances, the 

 beekeeper is able to rear them in almost un- 

 limited numbers and thus always have them 

 at hand when needed. 



It is a known fact that in the breeding of all 

 kinds of stock, the quality can be greatly 

 improved by selection and restriction in the 

 specimens that are to reproduce their kind, 



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