CHAPTER XXVIII. 



THE PROFITS OF BEE-KEEPING. 



Methods of Honey-taking Straw-Caps Bell-Glasses Sections 

 Frames Extractors Run Honey Average Returns of Hives. 



IN our introduction, reference was made to the 

 money-returns likely to be derived from bee-keep- 

 ing by persons of ordinary good sense, who learn to 

 manage their hives according to modern methods. 

 Some few facts relating to this point may be advan- 

 tageously added. 



With the different straw-skeps in use, three methods 

 of honey-taking may be adopted, without killing the 

 bees. Among cottagers the usual plan is to put on 

 to the stock-hive a "cap" or smaller straw-hive, and 

 to remove this when full. Others, more wisely, induce 

 their bees to work in bell-glasses of various sizes 

 and these, when nicely filled, are very saleable, at a 

 shilling or fifteen pence per Ib. A third plan is to 

 fit a certain number of the " sections " described in 

 Chapter XVII. into a box or crate, and to place these 

 on a strong stock. In the height of a good season, 



