INCREASE AND THE PROFITABLE PRODUCTION OF BEES. 65 



have an increase of ten from the original one hive. Allowing 

 two out of this for failures of the young queens to mate, or 

 loss from a severe winter, we have eight stocks left — that is, 

 seven stocks to sell, and the original stock left for the repetition 

 of the same process the following year ; and so we come to the 

 profit and loss side of the question. 



Profit and Loss. 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



2 cwt. cane sugar at £4 4:S. per cwt. 



10^ lbs. thin foundation at 3s. 6d. per lb. 



7 doz. frames at 36'. 9c/. per doz. 



Advertising bees for sale, say .... 



Total 



This amount, £11 17s. 6c/., must be added to the tenth 

 part of what I will call the bee-keeper's stock in trade, which 

 amounts to £1 14^'. 6d. as below. 



£ .s. d. 



9 hives at Sis 13 19 



2 rapid feeders at 6.^. 6c? 13 



9 slow stimulating feeders . . . . 1 12 6 

 2 travelling boxes ...... 1^ 6 



Total 17 5 



£17 OS. -i- 10 = 

 Add 



Total 



In spring the seven stocks will be sold on six frames each, 

 not twelve, and so there will be at least three dozen frames of 

 comb which the stocks built during the previous summer. 

 These may either be kept for future use, or (as calculated 

 below) they may be sold at 24^. per dozen. 



£ s. d. 



7 stocks sold at £3 ]0«. each . . . . 24 10 



3 doz. frames of comb at 24.*. per doz. . . 3 12 



Total 28 2 



Deduct 1 3 12 



Net Profit 14 10 



