PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT. 35 



PART SECOND. 



PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT. 



We now come to the practical part of our work ; and our 

 aim is to make the reader understand everything neces- 

 sary to the successful and profitable management of bees. 

 This hook is not written for the benefit of the advanced 

 students of bee-history and apiculture, but to instruct the 

 most ignorant to manage bees intelligently and well It 

 is Cobbett who says that all books should be written for 

 the benefit of those who are ignorant of the subject of 

 which they treat. The reader is requested to remember, 

 that our stating certain facts and opinions will not make 

 him, or anybody else, an intelligent bee-master, unless his 

 mind be fully convinced and held captive by the reason- 

 ableness of such statements. All is to be weighed in the 

 balance of his own reason, and whatever is found light 

 and wanting should be cast aside. By the formation of 

 correct and comprehensive ideas in apiculture, the reader 

 will be able to guide his own industry, and rise to a 

 position superior to those who foUow and imitate others. 

 Let all remember that those who follow are always 

 behind. 



