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on bee-keeping, but it is equally true that no one in 

 this age of progress can afFord to dispense with the 

 experience of those who have spent years in learning 

 what they are again wishful to teach others. The 

 author hopes that, by the perusal of these pages, 

 he may induce many to keep bees who have not 

 hitherto done so; that he may enable those who have 

 done well with the old fashioned system to do much 

 better in future; and that he may persuade all to 

 become bee-farmers in the true acceptation of the 

 term ; for those who have kept only two or three 

 stocks may just as easily and with little extra ex- 

 pense keep a hundred. If they will do so, they 

 may rely on a good income from their bee-farm, 

 for we have no hesitation in saying, that, in pro- 

 portion to the capital expended, bee-farming will 

 be found the most profitable business known. 



Let Tennyson's farmer's proverb be learned by 

 heart at the outset, 



" Them as has munny has all. Wots beauty.? the flower 

 as blaws. 

 But proputty, proputty sticks, an' proputty, proputty 

 graws." 



