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PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 
Bee-culture differs entirely from the culture of any 
other stock, as they are self-supporting. They not 
only provide their own food, but with a little care, pro- 
perly applied, will store a large surplus for their owner. 
They require no land, whereon to cultivate their food, 
no fences to prevent their breaking into fields and de- 
stroying crops, or to keep them from straying away. 
Horses, cattle and sheep have to be fed two or three 
times a day. Hard labor must be performed in obtain- 
ing and preparing their food ; numbers of broad acres 
of land are required for the cultivation of grain for 
their special food, yet no good farmer complains, al- 
though the profits derived therefrom are less than one- 
fourth of the profits obtained from properly conducted 
bee-culture, when compared with the amount of money 
invested. 
Many persons have hesitated to engage in this pur- 
suit from a fear of being stung ; yet a little practical 
knowledge of the nature of bees will enable any one to 
handle them without the least risk of being stung ; he 
will also ascertain that with properly constructed mov- 
able-comb hives, bee-keeping is made a successful busi- 
ness, dependent only on the observation of the natural 
laws which govern the honey-bee, and not on “luck” 
or '* chance.” By the use of such hives, the bee-keeper 
has perfect control of all the combs, bees and brood in 
