Best Stock and Hon' to Secure It 



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eventually build up a strain of bees that will be peaceable, hardy, good 

 honey-gatherers, and good comb-builders. Well-directed efforts at im- 

 proving his stock, carefully watching and recording the traits of each 

 colony, getting rid of poor queens and keeping the best, perhaps buying* 

 queens occasionally and comparing their progeny with the stock alread}- 

 on hand, always breeding from the best, such a course as this will 

 prove the most profitable of any which a bee-keeper can pursue. The 

 wonder is that it is so greatly neglected. 



