CHilPTER X, 



PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 



|WENTY-FIVE years ago, and even at the 

 present time, by the ordinary methods of bee 

 keeping, if a profit of five dollars from one hive 

 of bees in one season was gained, it was considered 

 "good luck." You know there is no system in the 

 ordinary methods of bee keeping. It is either ' 'good 

 luck" or "bad luck ;"— all "luck" and "chance," 

 an3rway. 



In one year they get five dollars profit from a 

 stock of bees ; the next honey season they get noth- 

 ing, and the bees all die in the winter ; or perhaps 

 they will survive that winter, and the next season 

 swarm, and fly away to the woods ; or perhaps re- 

 fuse to swarm, and remain idly clustered on the 

 front of the hive throughout the entire honey season, 

 and die from want of food before the winter is half 

 gone. 



Bee keeping by the ordinary methods is a very 

 precarious and uncertain occupation. The profits 

 are small at best, and losses large and frequent. 



With my Controllable Hive and common sense 

 System of Bee Management (as described in this 

 work,) founded on correct and scientific principles, 

 bee keeping is reduced to a science. There is no 



