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ence, and interest on the money invested in bees, hives, 

 fixtures, &c. 



A careful man who will enter into bee-keeping moderately 

 at first, and extend his operations only as his skill and expe- 

 rience increase, will, by the use of my hives, find that the 

 preceding estimate is not too large. Even on the ordinary 

 mode of bee-keeping, there are many who will consider it 

 rather below than above the mark. If thoroughly careless 

 persons are determined to " try their luck," as they call it, 

 with bees, I advise them by all means, in mercy to the bees, 

 to adopt the old plan. Improved methods of management 

 with such persons will be of little or no use, unless you can 

 improve their habits, and very often their brains too ! Every 

 dollar that they spend upon bees, unless with the slightest 

 possible departure from the old-fashioned plans, is a dollar 

 worse than thrown away. In those parts of Europe where 

 bee-keeping is conducted on the largest scale, the mass 

 adhere to the old system ; this they understand, and by this 

 they secure a cenainty, whereas in our country, thousands 

 have been induced to enter upon the wildest schemes, or at 

 least to use hives which could not furnish them the informa- 

 tion absolutely necessary for their successful management. 

 A simple box furnished with my frames, will enable the 

 masses, without departing materially from the common 

 system, to increase largely ihe yield from their bees. (See 

 p. 240.) 



The Government of Norway has appropriated $300 per 

 annum, for three years, towards diffusing a knowledge of 

 Dzierzon's method, in that country, having previously des- 

 patched Mr. Hanser, Collector of Customs, to Silesia, to visit 

 Dzierzon, and acquire a practical knowledge of his system of 

 management. 



