HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



I have used it with unfailing success, and the 

 beginner will make no mistake in adopting 

 it where a rapid increase is not desired ; it will 

 result in a doubling of the colonies and a 

 goodly surplus at the same time 



There are other times, however, when the 

 beekeeper desires to increase his colonies 

 several fold, and if great care is exercised, it 

 is possible to increase the number of colonies 

 to ten times the original number in one season ; 

 but one had better wait a season or two for 

 experience before going in for a wholesale 

 multiplication of colonies. Personally, I was 

 able in one season to increase ten colonies 

 up to one hundred, and, by a little feeding 

 which will be described later on, succeeded in 

 building the one hundred colonies up to strong 

 swarms for winter quarters, and the follow- 

 ing spring had one hundred prime colonies 

 ready for the honey flow, all made from but 

 ten colonies the season before. The increased 

 value of the apiary was from $100 to $1000, 

 and though there was no honey surplus gath- 



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