INTRODUCING IMPROVED HIVES. 
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SALE OF BOOKS. 
Good wages may be made selling books alone, especially if 
well equipped at County or State fairs. Take two hives, keep- 
ing the cap on one, and using the other for exhibiting the interior. 
Take also an observation hive, which should contain a frame 
of honey with an Italian queen, and enough workers to keep 
her warm. 
Locate near the gang-way, and calling attention to the Italian 
queen, induce the people to purchase many books by selling 
them five or ten cents below the retail price, while upon the fair 
grounds. Books may also be sold at bookstores, at wholesale 
prices, or left on commission, hanging up the ornamental hand- 
bill to call attention to them. These will awaken the people to 
the importance of bee-keeping, when properly conducted, and 
prepare the way for a still greater sale of books in connection 
with rights and hives, when the people will not complain of 
.properly rewarding those who have been the means of teaching 
them to successfully keep a profitable kind of stock, which sup- 
plies itself and its owner with delicious fare without injuring 
the pasture, or requiring a fence to protect the crops or prevent 
its straying away. As the book is cheap, and adapted to common 
hives, nearly all who have bees will purchase a copy, and will 
afterwards want better hives. 
MAKING HIVES DURING WINTER. 
By making a large supply of hives during winter, a great 
many rights may be sold, and perhaps a few bees obtained, by 
