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pounding at the public through the medium of the journals, bee 

 shows, &c., for years before your reputation is established. 

 Supply a good article, and give value for your customer's money ; 

 moreover, do not keep them waiting longer than you can possibly 

 help, and surely you will have your reward. Go slow with your 

 expenses until you find where you stand, and do not attempt to 

 do much in this way until you have a substantial stock of at 

 least one hundred colonies to draw upon, or you will never get 

 forward. 



Remember always that " excessive populations are produced 

 at the expense of surplus honey," while " a large surplus of stores 

 is gained at the expense of bee life." At the end of the season 

 the average colony is reduced to small proportions ; and so also 

 is that stock much smaller which had an excessive number of 

 bees, and an over-production of brood throughout the summer ; 

 therefore while the former hasysomething to show for its decreased 

 condition, both in stores retained, and a surplus given to the 

 owner ; if the surplus bees of the other are not made use of 

 either for increase or sale when in its prime, the cost of their 

 production has gone for nothing and is lost for ever. As a last 

 word of caution, it should be hardly necessary to state that while 

 your bee and queen trade is developing it will be necessary to 

 work most of your colonies for the production of honey ; therefore 

 make preparations accordingly, as all your stock will not be 

 wanted for increase as soon as your first advertisement appears. 

 Should the time come when you may have one apiary entirely 

 for increase to supply others, and other apiaries for honey only, 

 you will have done well in studying both subjects thoroughly. 



Still another department is connected with apiculture ; 



The Manufacture of Appliances 



has attained great proportions, and there are many reliable men 

 in that business. Again there are others innumerable, who 

 gaining a first insight into bee-keeping, think it a great chance to 

 make money by advertising hives for sale, either of patterns 

 already in hand, or some idea of their own. Nothing does the 



