PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 



thirty-five dollars per hundred gross weight — that 

 is, no tare deducted for weight of the box. 



In the season of 1880 one stock in a Controllable 

 Hive, in the month of June, without being 

 fed or having extra care, yielded seventy-two 

 pounds of surplus honey in glass boxes. Another 

 treated in the same manner, yielded over eight}' 

 pounds surplus in the same time. Another new 

 swarm, since the first week in June, filled the 

 brood frames with honey, and produced thirty-eight 

 pounds of surplus honey in glass boxes, (filling 

 eight boxes as full as they could be crowded,) and 

 gave me a large swarm the last week in June. 



When box honey brings from thirty-three to 

 thirty-five cents a pound, gross weight, my usual 

 yearly average is a little over fifty dollars clean 

 profit from the sale of box honey, from each stock 

 of bees I keep. I intend to keep about twelve 

 stocks each season. I sometimes have a much 

 greater number ; yet it is my purpose to keep only 

 this number each season, for the production of sur- 

 plus honey, swarms, etc. My average yield of sur- 

 plus box honey is about two hundred pounds (per- 

 haps a trifle less) from each hive of bees that I keep, 

 during each season, when swarming is prevented 

 and each stock liberally fed. 



I will here give the testimony of a few of the 

 many, who have adopted the plan of Bee Manage- 

 ment recommended in this work. I should give the 

 name and post-office address of each, were it not 

 for the fact that they would receive so many lettprs 

 of inquiry, as to make it very disagreeable to them. 



