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hives yielding me twelve shillings weekly from four to six 

 weeks of the season, and about six shillings for another 

 three weeks, besides about fifteen pounds of pure honey at 

 the end of the season, which I exchange for cheap syrup. 

 Before I introduced the Extractor I got a very poor return 

 in my apiary." 



Now is not this a more sensible plan than the one 

 adopted by nearly every cottage bee-keeper simply because 

 their fathers did the same, that is, letting the bees work the 

 season through and then cruelly murdering the whole 

 colony for the sake of about twelve pounds of sulphur- 

 tainted honey ? 



We may be pardoned if we draw attention again to the 

 striking fact that the bees must each year first gather twenty 

 pounds of honey before they can make the wax needed to 

 build up a small cottage-skep with combs. A method 

 which saves all the old combs, and, after taking out the 

 honey, gives them back to the hive to be again filled, plainly 

 effects an immense saving. The Bee-Farmer's Bar-Frame 

 Hive will take about twenty-three pounds of honey to fill 

 with comb; after it is once filled, no more loss is caused 

 ever afterwards. The whole time of the stock is taken up 

 solely with honey-collecting, with the results stated above. 

 If you only use the extractor once in the season it will repay 

 its cost. 



WHEN TO COMMENCE BEE-FARMING. 



Various opinions prevail amongst bee-writers on this 

 subject ; some are very misleading, and many beginners in 

 bee-farming have cause to regret ever following the advice 

 given. The generality of writers have advised those who 

 are about to start an apiary to purchase stocks in spring. 

 We, on the contrary, assert it is far better to secure stocks 

 about the month of September. The reason why so many 



