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believing if all would so contribute of their practical 

 experience with bees, great mutual benefit might 

 be gained, and rapid progress made in successful 

 and profitable bee culture. In consequence of my 

 course in spreading information with a view to aid 

 the cause, the class referred to in this chapter, and 

 their tools, are boiling over with wrath towards me, 

 lying, and slandering me through the public press, 

 and by every other means which their depraved na- 

 tures can invent ; all because I have succeeded by 

 hard study in perfecting a hive and a new system of 

 bee management, which is fast coming into general 

 use among bee keepers ; consequently the sale of 

 their worthless trash is decreasing rapidly; But I 

 am anxious to get through with this part of my 

 work, and reach the practical part, where I have 

 the greatest confidence in my ability to give such 

 information as will render bee keeping profitable 

 and desirable. 



