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To be sure, this is a quality whose growth, with even slight 

 opportunity, is almost sure. It only demands perseverance. 

 The beginner, without either experience or knowledge, may 

 meet with discouragements — unquestionably will. Swarms 

 will be lost, colonies will fail to winter, and the'young apiarist 

 wlU become nervous, which fact will be noted by the bees with 

 great disfavor, and, if opportunity permits, will meet reproof 

 more, sharp than pleasant. Yet, with peesistence, all these 

 difficulties quickly vanish. Every contingency will be foreseen 

 and provided against, and the myriad of little workers will 

 become as manageable and may be fondled as safely as a pet 

 dog or cat, and the apiarist will minister to their needs with 

 the same fearlessness and self-possession that he does to his 

 gentlest cow or favorite horse. Persistence in the face of all 

 those discouragemients which are so sure to confront iriexperience, 

 will surely triumph. In sooth, he who appreciates the beautiful 

 and marvelous, will soon grow to lovg his companions of the 

 hive, and the labor attendant upon their care and management. 

 Nor will this love abate till it has kindled into enthusiasm. 



True, there may be successful apiarists who are impelled by 

 no warmth of feeling; whose superipr intelligence, system, and 

 promptitude, stand in lieu of and make amends for absence 

 of enthusiasm. Yet I believe such are rare, and certainly 

 they work at great disadvantage. 



