Bee Culture Light Work, Interesting, and Profitable
Beekeeping differs from most other branches of agriculture, in that the beekeeper handles an animal which has never been domesticated. He must therefore study the habits of this animal and know them intimately before he may hope to succeed with this work. The feeding habits, breeding, and even the housing of bees has not been materially changed in all the centuries that man has handled them. If their habits are well understood, the beekeeper may cause them to accomplish results which will lead to the greatest profit to himself. The work is light, without routine duties at fixed times, with no drudgery. Beekeeping is interesting, in fact enthusing and strengthening to the mind and the body. It is a profitable business which may be made very lucrative with devotion and experience. A western man sold his crop of one season to a well-known company dealing in honey for $30,000.