INTRODUCTION. 



WHO MAY KEEP BEES. 



SPECIALISTS. 



Any person who is cautious, observing and prompt, will 

 succeed in bee keeping. He must expect to work with 

 full energy through the busy season, and persist though 

 discouragement and misfortune both confront him. I need 

 not mention capital or location, for men of true metal — 

 men whose energy of body and mind bespeak success in 

 advance — will solve these questions long before their expe- 

 rience and knowledge warrant their assuming the charge of 

 large apiaries. 



AMATEURS. 



Bee-keeping is specially to be recommended as an avo- 

 cation. Bees are of great value in fertilizing fruits, grains 

 and vegetables; they also save thousands of pounds of 

 most wholesome food which would otherwise go to waste; 

 and experience amply proves that they may be kept in city, 

 village and country at a good profit, and so any person, 

 possessed of the proper ability, tact and energy, may adopt 

 bee-keeping, and thus do good, gain pleasure, and receive 

 profit often, as experience has shown, more than is derived 

 from the regular occupation. Mr. C. F. Muth of Cincin- 

 nati has long kept bees very profitably on his store, in the 

 very heart of the city. Hundreds of our most successful 

 bee-keepers live in small towns and villages, and add bee- 

 culture to their work in shop, office, or study, and receive 

 health, pleasure and money as a reward. Ladies all over 

 our country are finding in this pursuit, pleasure, opportu- 

 nity to exercise in the pure air, which means health, and 



