THE HONEY-BEE: 



ITS NATURE, HOMES, AND PRODUCTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



In these days of intense business-pressure, it is a 

 good thing for men to cultivate hobbies. We say 

 this, notwithstanding the fact that men with hobbies 

 are likely to become bores, from thinking and talking 

 too incessantly of their pet occupations, or are apt to 

 run into extravagant expenditure of time and money, 

 which could be better utilised. Now, in recommend- 

 ing apiculture, or bee-keeping, as a recreation from 

 more serious pursuits, we feel that we incur little risk 

 of increasing the number of bores in society, or of 

 inducing an undue outlay of hours or pounds on the 

 part of those who follow our suggestions. For, on 

 the one hand, the facts likely to be spoken of by 

 enthusiastic apiarians to casual hearers could not fail 

 to interest ; while the practical results of bee-keeping 

 will certainly, to say the least, repay in hard cash all 



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