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will give a fair income. There will be some who 

 will go into the business largely, as I have done. 

 There are now, in different parts of the country, 

 many men who number their hives by the hundred, 

 a few who number them by the thousand. To fol- 

 low the business with success, in this way, demands 

 the same business qualities that command success in 

 other callings. z 7 



19. Every person who begins bee-keeping must 

 not expect as great success as I had the first year. 

 There are very few who will study the business as I 

 did ; there are very few who will care for their bees 

 as attentively as I did ; there are very few who can 

 secure locations as favorable as mine ; it is not always 

 that the season is as good as was my first year. 

 That, when the conditions are as favorable, a success 

 as great as mine can always be achieved, I am 

 thoroughly convinced. In the notes to this volume 

 I have given the testimony of others who corroborate 

 my experience. 



20. Possibly I may, in future, give some account 

 of my subsequent work, which will show even a 

 larger success. I will only say here that by supply- 

 ing the bees with continuous pasturage, from early 

 in the spring until frost in the fall, a very large yield 

 of honey may be received. Let the bee-keeper se- 

 cure a location where the natural pasturage is good, 

 then let him cultivate, on a somewhat extensive 



