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as far as possible, while we examine wherein one class 
in community is unprofitable to bee-keepers. 
SPECULATORS SUPPORTED LONG ENOUGH. 
We have faithfully supported a host of speculators 
on our business for a long time ; often not caring one 
straw about our success, after pocketing the fee of 
successful “humbuggery.” One is no sooner gone, 
than we are beset by another, with something 
altogether different, and of course the acme of per- 
fection. 
PREFIX OF PATENT A BAD RECOMMENDATION. 
This has been done until the very prefix of patent, 
or premium, attached to a hive, renders it almost 
certain that there must be something deleterious to 
the apiarian ; either in expense of construction or 
intricate and perplexing in management, requiring 
an engineer to manage, and a skilful architect to con- 
struct. 
What does the American savage, who without 
difficulty can track the panther or wolf, know of 
the principles of chemistry? What' does the Chemist 
know of following a track in the forest, when nothing 
but withered leaves can guide him ? Each understands 
principles, the minutiae of which the other never 
dreamed. 
IGNORANCE OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. 
Thus it appears to be with granting patents and 
premiums, if we take what has been patented and 
