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aa far as possible, while we examine wherein one chst 

 in community is unprofitable to bee-keepers. 



SPECULATORS SUPPORTED LONG ENOUGH. 



We have faithfully supported a host of speculators 

 on our business for a long time ; often not caring one 

 straw about our success, after pocketing the fee of 

 successful "humbuggery." One is no sooner gone, 

 than we are beset by another, with something 

 altogether different, and of course the acme of per- 

 fection. 



PRKFIX OP PATENT A BAD RECOMMENDATION. 



This has been done until the very prefix of patent, 

 or premium, attached to a hive, renders it almost 

 certain that there must be something deleterious to 

 the apiarian ; either in expense of construction or 

 intricate and perplexing in management, requiring 

 an engineer to manage, and a skilful architect to con- 

 struct. 



What does the American savage, who without 

 difficulty can track the panther or wolf, know of 

 the principles of chemistry ? What does the Chemist 

 know of following a track in the forest, when nothing 

 but withered leaves can guide him ? Each understands 

 principles, the minutiae, of which the other never 

 dreamed. 



IGNORANCE OP OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 



Thus it appears to be with granting patents and 

 premiums, if we take what has been patented and 



