60 PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING 
is really nothing to prevent any bee-keeper making: 
and creating a market for their sale, providing 
that he finds that it pays him best to do so. He 
must, however, make one branch of the pursuit 
particularly, his own, the other branches being 
looked upon as merely subsidiaries. As to which 
particular branch he favours, this is largely a 
matter of individual preference, tempered by, the 
quality of the district and the class of trade which 
is to be catered for. 
In some good districts, where fine light honey. 
and -good sections can be produced in quantity, 
it would probably pay the best to take that line. 
In another district, that produces an abundance of 
inferior honey, the apiarist should go in for the 
selling of stocks, swarms, and queens. An early, 
honey district, too, is very good where swarms are 
looked upon as a chief source of income. In 
these districts the swarms come off very early, 
and make a price which is considerably in ad- 
vance of those of a later date. In making his 
plans the bee-keeper. must never forget that he 
cannot produce and sell both bees and honey in 
quantity unless he has an exceptionally large 
aplary. It must be one or the other in most 
cases. A 
If swarms are allowed to come off, if the best 
colonies are sold, or if queen rearing is largely, 
indulged in, very little honey will be secured— 
probably none unless heavy sugar feeding, is 
adopted to replace any that is taken away. . 
