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bate circulars to all the bee-keepers. He should hang 
up our ornamental circular in post offices, or stores, 
with his address on each, that the bee-keepers may 
know where to apply for books, rights, hives and Italian 
queens. County fairs, elections, public sales and other 
gatherings should be attended, as they afford rare op- 
portunities to sell books, hives, farm and township 
rights, and to take orders for Italian queens. Our cir- 
culars always create a desire to see the hive, and a sam- 
ple hive should be kept for exhibition. In this manner 
many sales can be made with little effort or loss of time, 
and scarcely an interference with any other business. 
We also employ agents to sell township rights. 
If the party has qualified himself in the knowledge 
of practical bee-culture, and is duly prepared by pur- 
chasing an outfit, he will easily convince men : — 
i st. That bee-keeping is profitable. 
2d. That this hive is the proper one for profitable 
bee-culture, and worthy of adoption. 
3d. That selling books, rights, hives, Italian queens, 
and purchasing and transferring bees will pay, and that 
any one of these five branches of business, is a good 
business alone, and yet, so connected that each will aid 
the other. 
The agent will thus find plenty of purchasers, as 
several persons will frequently club together and pur- 
chase their township, the cost being no more to each 
