Excerpt from A Modern Bee Farm and Its Economic Management: Showing How Bees May Be Cultivated as a Means of Livelihood, as a Health-Giving Pursuit, and as a Source of Recreation to the Busy Man It will be asked: What are the Profits of Bee keeping Many consider that there is a fortune in it, but this is not so. All may gain health and pleasure in following the study of this, the most remarkable creature in the insect world, but the number who make a profit out of this occupation will be limited to those only who have special qualifications, and are able to give the subject close study and application. 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.