94 A Modern Bee-Farm 
IO per cent. interest on the investment. I produce chunk, 
extracted, and section honey, and sell all at 15 cents. per Ib. 
in this and neighbouring towns. My net profit for eleven 
years was a little over 400 per cent., and for the last six 
years it was a little over 800 per cent. Last year my home 
apiary, of which I am now writing, 75 colonies (spring 
count), gave me 407 Ibs. to the colony. . . .” 
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