PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 17 
the bees from this hive to the Controllable Hive, and 
they gave me a profit of over forty dollars the first 
year. 
IT sold my honey in 1874 for from thirty-three to thirty- 
five dollars per hundred gross weight—that is, no tare 
deducted for the weight of the box. 
In the season of 1880 one stock in a Controllable 
Hive, in the month of June, without being fed or hav- 
ing extra care, yielded seventy-two pounds of surplus 
honey in boxes. Another treated in the same manner, 
yielded over eighty pounds of 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 itis my purpose to keep 
only this number each season, for the production of sur- 
plus honey, swarms, etc. My average yield of surplus 
box honey is about two hundred pounds (perhaps a trifle 
less) from each hive of bees that I keep, during each 
season, when swarming is prevented and each stock 
liberally fed. 
