INTRODUCTION. 
WHO MAY KEEP BEES. 
SPECIALISTS. 
Any person who is cautious, observing and prompt, will 
succeed in bee keeping. He must expect to work with 
full energy through the busy season, and persist though 
discouragement and misfortune both confront him. Ineed 
not mention capital or location, for men of true metal— 
men whose energy of body and mind bespeak success in 
advance—will solve these questions long before: their expe- 
rience and knowledge warrant their assuming the charge of 
large apiaries, 
AMATEURS. 
Bee-keeping is specially to be recommended as an avo- 
cation. Bees are of great value in fertilizing fruits, grains 
and vegetables; they also save thousands of pounds of 
most wholesome food which would otherwise go to waste; 
and experience amply proves that they may be kept in city, 
village and country at a good profit, and so any person, 
possessed of the proper ability, tact and energy, may adopt 
bee-keeping, and thus do good, gain pleasure, and receive 
profit often, as experience has ee, more than is derived 
from the regular occupation. . C.F. Muth of Cincin- 
nati has long kept bees very sieledely on his store, in the 
very heart of the city. Hundreds of our most successful 
bee-keepers live in small towns and villages, and add bee- 
culture to their work in shop, office, or study, and receive 
health, pleasure and money as a reward. Ladies all over 
our country are finding in this pursuit, pleasure, opportu- 
nity to exercise in the pure air, which means health, and 
