III. 



UTOPIA. 



In the little book on bees there was an advertise- 

 ment of a monthly periodical, devoted to bee cul- 

 ture. I sent for a specimen copy, which came in a few 

 days. It was read with great interest, and corrobor- 

 ated all the statements in Prof. Cook's book as to 

 profits. In this periodical, I found advertisements 

 of two others, devoted to the same subject. I sent 

 also for specimens of these. When they came and 

 were read, I sent subscriptions for a year to each of 

 them, and purchased all the back volumes of one of 

 them. I sent also for Quinby's Mysteries of Bee- 

 keeping, and for Langstroth on The Hive and Honey 

 Bee. These two books were both most excellent in 

 their time, but the improvements in bee-keeping 

 since they were written, have been so great, that in 

 many things they were not up with the times. Prof. 

 Cook, and the three magazines, and the back vol- 

 umes of the one, became my text-books, and were 

 most diligently studied. 



Meanwhile the season was running on. I learned 



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