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or as fast as they swarm put them in Controllable Hives. 
In this way you will soon have your bees in shape to pay 
you a good profit. 
When you begin keeping bees, study closely their 
natural habits and requirements. Give them such care 
and attention as your judgment and present knowledge 
teach they require. Persevere, and ultimate success is 
certain. 
Every one who attains success with bees, will find that 
there is something more to be done, than simply to stand 
with folded hands, with the expectation that a fortune 
must inevitably follow. Know the precise condition of 
your bees at all times—whether they are weak or strong, 
whether they are without a queen, or whether the queen 
has become so old as to have passed her usefulness. 
After a period of years queens become barren, and unless 
they are removed, and a young queen substituted, the 
bees will rapidly decline in numbers, and all disappear 
from the hive in a few weeks or months. 
It cannot be too strongly urged upon the beginner, this 
great necessity of securing strong, healthy stocks to begin 
with ; and if possible get them in the Controllable Hives. 
All who do not fully understand the management and 
nature of bees, would save themselves much trouble and 
perplexity, by procuring, to begin with, one or more 
healthy colonies in the Controllable Hives. Your chances 
of success in the end, and your profits of the first season, 
are greater from one swarm in the hive, than from six in 
second-class hives. If you purchase bees in inferior 
