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product and consequent profit of the same. We 

 should look upon that farmer as either a fool or a 

 lunatic, who should furnish his domestic animals 

 no food, except what they obtained by grazing in 

 the pastures and fields, the year round. And do 

 you think his cows treated thus, would yield him 

 a large product of butter, cheese and milk, and 

 consequently a good profit in dollars and cents.? 

 Do you think he would find his cows, managed 

 thus, so profitable as to induce him to keep cows to 

 any great extent ? Let a farmer manage thus — take 

 his cows to the barn, milk them, then turn them 

 out the year round to graze and provide for them- 

 selves, taking them up only to milk them, furnish- 

 ing them with no food except what they procure by 

 grazing — how long, think you, would such a farmer 

 have cows to milk. Yet this is a parallel case with 

 the bee keeper who furnishes his bees with no feed 

 except what they can procure by their own industry. 

 And is it surprising that bees treated thus pay no 

 profit ? 



Again, the farmer who should year after year 

 plant his corn, potatoes, etc., apply no manure, 

 furnish no cultivation, yet expect to succeed in 

 farming, harvest large crops, and get a good yearly 

 profit in dollars and cents, and grumble because he 

 did not, and at last abandon the business, asserting 

 that there was no profit in farming, furnishes an- 

 other parallel case to the bee keeper who lets his 

 bees shift for themselves, and then grumbles because 

 they pay no profit, and at last abandons the business, 

 asserting that there is no money in bee keeping. 



