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Show Bee-Keeping. Beginners in beekeeping bee-keeping should not, when going into the business, build costly bee-houses, provide high priced, untested patent hives, purchase a large number of colonies, or buy "three-banded" Italian Itali-an queens at a time, when, as yet, they can hardly tell a drone from a worker. Begin moderately, and hasten has-ten slowly. The necdlul experience in practical bee culture is much more easily and far more efficiently acquired, by careful attention to a few choice ( stocks, than by a hurried supervision of a large number, even with the aid of manuals and text books. Plain, simple, movable frame hives, too, will be found better suited for the requisite manipulations than fanciful and complicated contrivances devised by persons really ignorant themselves of the habits and wants of bees. And colonies placed in an open situation, with their hives readily accessible from all sides, and somewhat sheltered or shaded by trees or vines, will be much more conveniently, managed than when placed in ordinary sheds or out door bee-houses. Study first what is required for success, and then extend your operations when you are sure that you can have the business "well in hand." |