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harvest. To have bought black bees would have introduced a large 

 number of black drones into my apiary, and so have made it impos- 

 sible for me to raise pure Italians. 



d. By my plan I secured young, vigorous Italian queens, purely 

 fertilized, and pure Italian workers, ready to begin work at once in 

 collecting the fall harvest. 



e. Hence my new swarms gathered honey enough in a short time 

 to pay for themselves several times over. Considering the amount of 

 honey they gathered for me, I had no reason to complain of their 

 cost. I, however, made a serious mistake in having my apple blos- 

 soms honey stored in comb, and thus being compelled to use the nice 

 clover honey for feeding the bees. The apple blossoms honey would 

 have been just as good for the bees, and by feeding it instead of the 

 white clover I should have saved the difference between its value and 

 that of the white clover, — five cents a pound, quite a large sum in 

 the aggregate. 



15. (Page 121.) My yield of comb honey was large. So great a 

 quantity per hive could have been secured only by extracting fre- 

 quently during a flow of honey, and then feeding back to the bees 

 when the flow ceased, so as to keep them at work storing in comb, 

 when otherwise they would have been idle. 



G. M. Doolittle, ofBorodino,N. Y., reports a yield of 566 pounds 

 of extracted honey from one hive in one year. — Bee-Keepers' Maga- 

 zine, Vol. v., p. 234. 



If he had fed this back to the bees to be stored in combs, allow- 

 ing that there would have been a loss of one-ninth in weight in so 

 doing, he would have had 503 pounds of comb honey for the yield of 

 this hive. Mr. Doolittle sold his white comb honey for twenty cents 

 a pound, and the dark honey for less ; an average of fifteen cents a 

 pound for both white and dark will be a low estimate. This gives 

 an income of $75 45 from one hive in one year, not to mention the 

 increase in stock, and Mr. Doolittle about doubled his stock the same 

 year. If such success can be achieved often, it will make bee-keep- 

 ing a most important industry. 



16. Bee-Keeping as a Business. — (Page 151.) According to 

 the New York Sun, Mr. J. S. Harbison, of San Diego Co., Cal., 

 took to the New York market in the fall of 1876, 200,000 pounds of 

 honey, the product of his hives for that year. Mr. Harbison then 

 had in San Diego Co. 3,000 swarms of bees, located in six different 

 places. — Gleanings, Vol. iv.,p. 298. 



Adam Grimm, of Jefferson, Wis., had at one time 1400 swarms, 

 from the annual product of which he received a large income. He 



