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Beekeeping 
the good beekeeper gets an adequate return in less abundant 
seasons. The ideals toward which the beekeeper should 
work are: (1) to handle the bees as little as possible ; (2) to 
manipulate them only when he has some definite object in 
view; (3) to follow a definite system, not based on rules but 
on a knowledge of bees, capable of modification as occasion 
may arise, but working for one end — maximum honey- 
production. 
