HOW TO KEEPBEES FOR PROFIT 



Beekeeping has been called the poetry of 

 agriculture, and certainly there is no more 

 noble profession on earth, nor one in which 

 the exercise of skill and experience will bring 

 a more liberal income for men and women 

 who give their time and effort to its pursuit. 



As we stand amid the hives and hear the 

 merry hum of its many thousand denizens, 

 there will come to us again and again a feel- 

 ing of contentment in the knowledge that 

 their multiplied efforts are in our behalf; and 

 when the season draws near for the gathering 

 of the harvest of golden nectar, how proud 

 we are to know that owing to our skill 

 and direction, the busy little people have suc- 

 ceeded in gathering far more nectar than if 

 left to their own inclinations. The greatest 

 of the world's writers have written of these 

 wonderful little creatures; how infinitely better 

 is it to know and care for them and realize 

 they are ours, and have wrought to make us 

 happier and wealthier. 



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