NOTES. 



r. Profits of Bee-keeping.— (Page 24.) "With a small number 

 of hives I have realized $35 per hive." — J. M. Stephenson, Crawford 

 Co., Penn., in American Bee yournal, Vol. xiii., p. 14. 



Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, 

 reports in 1876 a net profit of $24 05 per hive. — American Bee Jour- 

 nal, Vol. xiii., p. 18. 



"This business, compared with other agricultural pursuits, with 

 me at least, stands the test pretty well ; it has given me this year an 

 income of $1,000 (after paying for lumber and glass) for my labor on 

 forty stocks of bees." — J. P. Moore, Binghamplon, N. Y., in A?n- 

 erican Bee Journal, Vol. xiii., p. 61. 



"We know by past experience that, when well managed, they 

 hardly ever pay less than 100 per cent., and often as much as 500 per 

 cent." — Dr. Bolts, Barren Co., Ky., in American Bee Journal, Vol. 

 xiii., p. 411. 



Mrs. L. B. Baker, of Lansing, Mich., reports that her first year in 

 keeping bees she had two swarms which gave her a profit of $103 15 

 or $51 5° P er swarm. The next year, 1875, sne made a profit of 

 $59 85 per hive. In 1876 her profit was $19 05 per hive. — Bee- 

 keepers' Magazine, Vol. v., p. 90. 



2. Increase of Bees. — (Page 29.) Under the most favorable 

 conditions bees will increase in numbers very rapidly. Usually, bee- 

 keepers prefer to increase their stocks somewhat slowly, for slow in- 

 crease of stocks gives a larger amount of surplus honey. 



C. F. Greening, Grand Meadow, Minn., reports that in 1877 he 

 had three swarms that multiplied in one year to nineteen. — A??ierican 

 Bee Journal, Vol. xiii., p. 300. 



S. G. Rose, Bluff City, 111., says he had six swarms in one year 

 from one hive of Italians, and took also 84 pounds of honey. — Am- 

 erican Bee Journal, Vol. xiii., p. 304. 



T. M. Glenn, Jefferson Co., Tenn., in the summer of 1877, in- 

 creased one swarm of Italians to nine swarms, and took also 210 

 pounds of honey. — American Bee Journal, Vol. xiii., p. 341. 



