20 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



money on my bees, for I here was that $10.40, and the time I had 

 spent with tlie bees was just as well spent in that way as in 

 some other form of amusement. Indeed, at that time I am not 

 sure that I had much thought (hat I was ever to get any profit 

 out of the business. Certainly I had no thought that it would 

 ever become a \-oeation instead of an avocation. 



Fig. 5 — T Super 



GETS AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



In 1869, while away from home, I came across a copy of 

 The American Bee Jouninl. I subscribed for it, and also ob- 

 tained the first volume of the same journal. That first volume, 

 containing the series of articles by the Baron of Berlepsch on 

 the Dzierzon theory, lias been of more service to me than any 



