76 PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 
by swarming, but to have all the bees employed storing 
surplus honey in the boxes throughout the season. 
As fast as the boxes were filled, they were removed 
and empty ones substituted in their place. I never saw 
bees work with such determined industry, early and late, 
and in all kinds of weather. When honey failed at the 
end of the season, there was a set of boxes on the hive 
partially filled. I immediately gave the bees feed until 
these two were finished. I found, on weighing the pro- 
duct of this hive in the fall, that they had given me a 
fraction over three hundred and eighty pounds of sur- 
plus honey in boxes. This honey I sold at thirty-five 
cents a pound, a little over one hundred and thirty-three 
dollars, for surplus honey sold from this one stock. 
Reader, go thou and do likewise. 
I had one stock of bees which occupied the same 
stand winter and summer, for six years, and during that 
time they swarmed but once, and from it I sold every 
year over fifty dollars’ worth of surplus honey in glass 
boxes. A neighbor several times offered me fifty dollars 
for this stock, early in the spring before the bees com- 
menced their labors. 
In 1874, I purchased a swarm of bees in an old box 
hive. They had not paid their owner a dollar in profit 
for years. Some seasons they would swarm and fly 
away to the woods; in other seasons they would remain 
clustered on the front of the hive through the entire 
season, refusing to swarm, or enter the two small boxes 
covered with a cap on top of the hive. I transferred 
