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the Pacific will continue, and increase in value and 

 importance until it exceeds any other enterprise of a 

 similar kind in the world. In fact, if we consider 

 the great difficulties of first introducing bees to Cal- 

 ifornia, the immense amount of capital that has been 

 and now is invested in the various departments of 

 the business, the energy and enterprise manifested 

 by those engaged in it, together with the highly 

 favorable results attending it in the shape of profits, 

 it is, I apprehend, without a parallel in the history 

 of bees in any age of the world. Those engaged in 

 it that have been most successful, first divested them- 

 selves of all preconceived notions and traditions, 

 scattered broadcast over the land, and availed them- 

 selves of every improvement and suggestion that 

 gave promise of advancement in the science of 

 bee-keeping; hence we find many men iu California, 

 of comparatively short experience as apiarians, that 

 are now able to teach nineteen-twentieths of our bee- 

 keepers in the Atlantic States how to keep and 

 manage bees to make them yield the greatest profits. 

 My observations lead me to believe that but com- 

 paratively few persons who keep bees in the Atlantic 

 States, are fully aware of the profits that may and 

 ought to be realized from their bees, if propei-ly 

 managed. This will apply to almost every locality 

 east of the Rocky mountains. Adopt the same 

 measures here that have been practiced by bee-keep- 

 ers in California ; go at it with the same zeal, energy 

 and perseverance there exhibited, and it will become 

 one of the most productive sources of wealth M'hich 



