HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



loss of the honey crop, yet the increase of one 

 colony to five or even ten would represent 

 an increased equipment many times the 

 value of the surplus that would have been 

 gathered by the colony had it been run for 

 honey. There is, therefore, a gain and not a 

 loss, though the gain is in bees and not in 

 honey. 



Mr. Alexander's method of course meant 

 the increase of but one more colony for each 

 strong colony in hand, but as it carried with 

 it the assurance of a surplus at the same time, 

 it is a most excellent plan to follow where 

 a rapid increase is not desired. 



In " Gleanings in Bee Culture," an illustrated 

 bee journal published by the A. I. Root Co. 

 of Medina, Ohio, we find in the issue of one 

 of the months of 1906, page 423, the method 

 outlined as follows : 



" When your colonies are strong enough 

 to swarm naturally, and you wish to divide 

 them so as to make two from one, go to the 

 colony you wish to divide; lift it from its 



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