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PAET SECOND. 



PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT. 



We now come to tiie practical part of our -work ; and our 

 aim is to make tiie reader understand everything neces- 

 sary to the successful and profitable management of bees. 

 This book 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 

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

 position superior to those who follow and imitate others. 

 Let aU remember that those who foUow are always 

 behind. 



