28 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



money on mj' bees, for there was that $10.40, and the time I 

 had spent with the bees was just as well spent in that way as 

 in some other form of amusement. Indeed at that time I am 

 not sure that I had much thought that I was ever to get any 

 profit out of the lousiness. Certainly I had no thought that it 

 would ever become a vocation instead of an avocation. 



Fig. 5 — T Super. 



GETS AMERICAN BEE .JOURNAL. 



Tn 1869, while away from liome, I came across a copy of 

 The American Bee Journal. I subscribed for it, and also ob- 

 tained the first volume of the same journal. That first volume 

 containing the series of articles by (he Baron of Berleiisch on 

 the Dziei-zon tlieory, has been of more service to me than any 



