1C8 PROFITS OF THE AP1ART. 



more care) receive proper attention ; when the profits, as from 

 farm products, will mainly depend upon the season. 



" The intelligent, practical bee-keeper, can take care of five^ 

 hundred swarms, and make a portion of the hive3 needed for 

 aew colonies." — U. S. Patent Office Report. 



" The profits resulting from a judicious and proper system of 

 bee culture, may be safely estimated at from one hundred to five 

 hundred per cent, per annum. I have three swarms, which have 

 paid mo in honey and increase of stock, upwards of $100 in two 

 years. The average profit upon my entire stock, for three years, 

 has been three hundred and twenty-seven per cent, per annum, 

 or $3.27 has been the annual profit on every dollar invested." 

 —Dr. Eddy. 



"On the 25th of April, 1858, I purchased ten hives of bees, 

 m the old fashioned box hive, for $50. They were so full that 

 I had to divide them before I could move them. I divided the 

 ten, and made me twenty hives. On the thirteenth day after, 

 I divided ten again. I took four queens from one hive, in the 

 cells, and ten from another, and gave each swarm a queen-celL 

 which hatched the next day, making thirty hives. I sold from 

 those thirty hives, $547 worth of honey, and the increase of my 

 bees is worth $500 more, making $1,047 in one year, from an 

 outlay of $50. I took from one hive, twelve frames filled with 

 honey, in fourteen days, and I had a number of hives from which 

 I took twelve frames, filled with honey, in twenty-one days." — 

 E. Townly, Cincinnati, O. 



The "American Agriculturist" gives the results of the apiary 

 of Bidwell Brothers, of Minnesota, for two years past. In 



