and its Economic Management. 5 



would do well to have some large crops going throughout 

 the whole season. I have sometimes been asked 



What Amount of Capital should be Invested 



to ensure a certain income ; but, considering I know 

 nothing of the capabilities of those who apply by letter, 

 it would be useless to attempt a satisfactory answer, and 

 in many cases unwise to give any encouragement at all, 

 where the fullest particulars as to locality and personal 

 qualifications are not given. Everything relating to his 

 surrounding honey-producing plants and trees should be 

 well known to the advanced apiarist, who will not be 

 certain of success on a large scale just because a few 

 particular colonies have yielded comparatively large 

 weights. He will first find it his duty to pay the greatest 

 attention to securing the highest possible average return 

 from his stock, both by carefully breeding by a process of 

 selection, and systematic union offerees, that immense 

 populations may be on hand at the right time. He who 

 has thus far mastered the science, will have no need to ask 

 the foregoing question, but the list of estimated expenses 

 may in some cases aid enquirers to obtain much needed 

 information. 



It should be almost unnecessary to point out that 

 '- everything must be done at the right time ; " there must 

 be " a place for everything, and everything should be in 

 its place." Thus by constant and careful attention, and 

 by keeping all things in order, the specialist will command 

 success ; but the inan who is not naturally of an orderly 

 and temperate disposition, and moreover is not enthusias- 

 tic, and a lover of Nature (the natural qualifications of a 

 bee-keeper), had better keep out of the business, or failure 

 will surely be the result. At the same time, it is by no 

 means certain that reverses will not occasionally be met 



