CHAPTER 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,” anyway. 
In one year they get five dollars profit from a stock 
of bees; the next honey season they get nothing, and 
the bees all die in the winter; or perhaps they will sur- 
vive that winter, and the next season swarm, and fly 
away to the woods; or perhaps refuse to swarm, and fly 
away to the woods; or perhaps refuse to swarm, and 
remain idly clustered on the front of the hive throughout 
the entire honey season, and die for want of food before 
the winter is half gone. 
Bee keeping by the ordinary methods is a very pre- 
carious 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,) found- 
ed on correct and scientific principles, bee keeping is 
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