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NECESSARY EQUIPMENT 
Like all other industries when first undertaken, beekeeping should 
begin in a simple way. If you are not acquainted with bees it is 
best to begin with one colony and one or two good books on beekeep- 
ing, and subscribe for one of the best bee journals. Study the living 
bees and your publications together. It will take only a compara- 
tively short time—about one season—to increase your colonies and 
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prepare for making honey. The equipment necessary, while simple,. 
is peculiarly adapted to the business. 
Use nothing but the modern hive; one that may 
The modern hive be opened from time to time, permitting you to- 
study the condition of the bees. There are many 
kinds of modern hives to which the inventor’s name is still attached.. 
A 10-frame hive is preferable to any other. A hive constructed on the 
principles of the Langstroth, with 10 Hoffman frames, with a shallow 
