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needs equal attention; with a large crop available, what are we 
going to do with it? To make it profitable to the whole com- 
munity, as well as to the individual, we must exchange it for 
foreign money, and begin to get a stream running out of the 
colony, opening the way for a still larger output, that others may 
engage in the production. We may have some difficulty in opening 
up trade—some opposition, some prejudice ; but looking at a fair 
sample of our honey, can we have any fear about finding a market 
for it at its value side by side with other like products of other 
parts of the world? 
We may feel assured that we need only a well-regulated and 
persistent effort to find and secure outside markets for this valu- 
able product which we have at command. 
J have spoken of variation in quality of honey. This is very 
marked all the world over. 
Before the introduction of the movable frame hive and the 
honey extractor little was known of this subject, as the contents 
of a hive were allowed to remain till a given time and then 
removed, the whole being mixed. Now, however, the bee-keeper 
is enabled to see the various qualities of honey as they are brought 
in, note their sources, and separate one from another. 
While some honey is excellent, and needs no recommendation, 
other is objectionable in flavour and appearance, and as an article 
of food has nothing to recommend it. 
A colony of bees gathering honey from various sources during 
the spring and summer will bring in very varying qualities. It 
would be poor policy to reduce these to an average sample where 
it is possible to grade them. 
The bee-keeper may, however, classify his crops as they come 
in, and set aside any honey from objectionable sources, so that it 
does not contaminate the whole. 
Referring to the labour entailed, and the conditions necessary 
to success in bee-keeping, I can only say, as said at the beginning 
of my subject, the profits lie in the man. His capital must 
largely consist of knowledge, but such knowledge will rapidly be 
gained where there is an enthusiasm in the subject. 
While the work is not laborious, it needs constant attention, 
and during the spring months long hours, but this is more than 
compensated for by the ease of other times. There are many 
men who, although physically incapacitated from the hard labour 
of a country life, may find profitable employment in bee-keeping 
as a source of living, or as an adjunct to something else. 
