BRHE-CULTURE. 
CHAPTER I. 
THE ATTENTION OF DIFFERENT CLASSES SOLICITED. 
In this volume, I propose to invite attention to a most interesting 
and profitable branch of rural industry. In so doing, I would not be 
understood as calling the attention of agriculturists alone to this subject. 
_ The impression has too long existed that the cultivator of the soil alone, 
or especially, is concerned in the management of the Honey Bee. 
There are very many individuals in every community as well situated, 
to say the least, as the husbandman, for a successful prosecution of this 
enterprise. It isnot an enterprise which requires great, capital or great 
muscular energy, or great extent of territory, as personal possessions. 
Any individual, however limited his resources, who has command of a 
little leisure, may share in the luxury and profits which result from the 
labors of the Honey Bee: and the amount of time required in the 
various operations of Bee-culture is much less than is generally 
supposed. There are ten months of the year during which Bees may“ 
be said to take care of themselves; that is, the attention which they 
need is very trifling. The aggregate degree of attention which a dozen 
swarms of Bees require during the year is less than a dozen house 
plants, or the single canary bird would necessarily demand. The time 
is at hand when professional men and young persons, and even females 
and aged persons who are much at home, will be among our most 
successful Bee-keepers; to say nothing of the mechanic, who being 
much at home is peculiarly well sitaéted for yiving attention to this 
