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be the disseminators of useful knowledge among bee 
keepers. I am sorry to find the reverse true with many 
of them. After a thorough investigation, I feel it my 
duty to advise bee-keepers, and those contemplating bee- 
keeping, not to take all for granted that you read in the 
bee journals, for if you do, you will be very likely to 
soon find yourself robbed of your money, and your bees 
ruined. 
Very many who write for the bee journals with high 
sounding words, claiming to be adepts in bee culture, 
have really no practical knowledge of the nature and 
habits of bees. We have supported a host of speculators 
in our business, for a long time; the object of this class 
has ever been, how best to secure our hard earnings, and 
with no desire or effort to aid in rendering bee-keeping 
more profitable and desirable. The country is full of 
this class, and they always combine to crush out real 
merit in anything pertaining to bee culture, brought 
before the public by individual bee-keepers, who are 
laboring to advance the cause by giving their experi- 
ences, gained from hard every-day labor among bees. 
For many years I have written articles on bee culture 
for the leading agricultural journals and newspapers. I 
have thus given much of my experience in detail, with no 
thought of further reward than the satisfaction of having 
contributed to aid bee-keepers in raising bees with 
greater profit, believing if all would so contribute of their 
practical experience with bees, great mutual benefit 
might be gained, and rapid progress made in successful 
