96 STATE BOAKD OF AGKICULTUKE. 



To garden team (plowing for trees) $ L 00 



" " ( " '' experimental plats) 170 



students' labor in setting and caring for trees 18 22 



2 loads saw dust (improving ground) 2 75 



3J hours' team work (drawing manure) 97 



Total amount $155 08 



RESULTS CLASSIFIED. 



Improvement of grounds - - $26 17 



Experimental plats (Honey Plants) 23 65 



Tools, record-book, etc - 20 45 



Hives, feed, queens, and care of bees 84 81 



Total amount $155 08 



API.VKY. Cr. 



By 11 colonies bees (in liives) @ $10.00 $110 00 



59 lbs. extracted honey @ 17*c 10 32 



115 " " " @20c 23 00 



889i " '' ' @15c - 58 42 



64^ " comb " @ 20c - 12 90 



84" " " " @ 25c 2100 



168 " " " @ 20c, (unsold) 33 60 



70 " asparagus @ 08c 5 60 



60 frames worker comb @ 10c 6 00 



9 bee hives @ $2.00 18 00 



improved grounds 26 17 



experiments on bee-plants 23 65 



tools, record-book, etc 15 45 



"work bench 5 00 



lumber, paint and oil on hand 2 33 



Total receipts $3 71 44 



Total exjjenditures 155 08 



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Net profits on 9 colonies $216 36 



Net profit per colony 24 04 



CONCLUSIONS FEOM YEAR'S WORK. 



The experimental hive, strong in old bees, but which contained no young bees, 

 as no brood was permitted to hatch after the middle of August, and which died 

 in early spring, indicates that spring dwindling may come from the fact that 

 there are no young bees in the hive when the bees go into winter quarters. This 

 condition may arise either from a poor queen, a poor honey yield, or dearth of 

 honey in autumn, when even the best queen will refuse to do duty ; or, as has 

 been the case here this fall, such a great honey yield as to give the queen no 

 opportunity. 



NATURAL SWARMING. 



I have proved, what reason and a knowledge of the natural history of the 

 honey-bee would discover, that natural swarming is always suffered at a great 



