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HIVES. 
and other gatherings, afford excellent opportunities for selling 
books or distributing circulars to bee-keepers. A sample hive 
should be kept for exhibition, and our large ornamental advertis- 
ing cards, (containing Agent’s address,) should be hung up in 
post-offices, stores or other places of public resort, which never 
fail to excite a desire to see the hive, and many sales can thus be 
made with little effort or loss of time, and scarcely interfere with 
any other business. We also employ Agents to sell township 
rights in new or distant parts of the country. 
Being duly and truly prepared, by purchasing outfit, &c., and 
withal a worthy citizen and well qualified in the knowledge of 
practical bee culture, you will easily convince men : 
1st. That bee-keeping is profitable. 
2d. That the hive is worthy of adoption. 
3d. That selling books, rights, hives, and Italian queens, is 
highly remunerative, and that any one of these four kinds of 
business is good alone, and yet so connected that each aids the 
other. 
The Agent will thus find plenty of purchasers, as in many 
instances several persons will join together in the purchase of 
their township, when it will cost each one no more than to pur- 
chase a single farm right. An agent should not sell the township 
in which he lives, or those adjoining, as the sale of a few farm 
rights will amount to as much as they would bring ; besides, the 
territory is convenient for selling farm rights and hives in, and 
stocks of bees in such hives (with farm right) afler you get as 
many as you wish to keep. We can furnish deeds printed 
expressly for owners of territory, as per price list. 
