Excerpt from The Blessed Bees This record of a year's work gives the experiences and results of my beginning in a business which is to me a constant pleasure, and the source of a good income. Bee-keeping, by old methods, was believed to be ruled by chance; the bee-keeper who had good luck obtained some honey from his hives by the slaughter of his bees over the brimstone pit; the bee-keeper who had bad luck found himself, sooner or later, the owner of a beggarly array of empty hives. Bee-keeping, by modern methods, depends not upon luck but upon knowledge; it is an art just as much as growing wheat or fruit or stock; the profits which may be gained from it are just as certain as the profits from any other branch of rural labor, and are much larger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.