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series of many outyards and much help, it is rather the one-man 
business that we will just now discuss, for many people who can 
be successful in a business whose every detail they can oversee 
are likely to fail when it comes to organizing a system and dele- 
gating the actual operations to hired help. 
A Minister.—As a first example there is the case of a Presby- 
terian minister, who took up bee-keeping exclusively several years 
ago. He now has about three hundred colonies of bees, in four 
yards. One hundred and twenty colonies is the largest number 
that he has in one yard, while there are but thirty colonies in his 
smallest yard. His average return has been seven dollars per 
colony per year. This amount is somewhat in excess of the 
salary he probably received in serving a small congregation in a 
country town. 
A carpenter gave up his trade to keep bees as an exclusive 
source of livelihood, more than twenty-five years ago. When he 
abandoned his trade and took up bee-keeping he rented a house 
and two lots in a small town. At the end of two years he pur- 
chased the property, and has since occupied it asa home. During 
the early years of his experience before he became well estab- 
lished, there was one season of failure of the honev crop, when 
he found it necessary to work at his trade temporarily for a few 
months. Aside from that, the bees have furnished his entire sup- 
port. He has paid for his home and business, from the apiary, 
built a better house, and added to his real estate holding. While 
his income is not large, he has had a better support than his trade 
could furnish, and his business is at home where he enjoys the 
assistance and association of his family. His work is of a kind 
that he enjoys, and not of a nature that advancing age will 
compel him to lay aside (Fig. 8). 
A Clerk.—One might also cite the case of a shipping clerk 
in a manufacturing establishment. Because of failing health he 
was compelled to seek the open air. The pressing necessity of 
providing for his family compelled him to find something that 
would furnish the needed support, without demanding too heavy 
toil from a weakened body. He has been remarkably successful 
