MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 133 
Suitable size hives for the purpose. And 
if they do not swarm I divide them and 
make them swarm. And I very often have 
second swarms and 1am very glad to have 
them do so. Second swarms if obtained in. 
June, although small at first, soon increase 
in numbers, fill their hive, nad make as good 
stock hives for wintering as first swarms. 
Let us suppose a swarm of Bees to be put 
into a hive sufficiently large to prevent them 
from swarming. And at the end of six 
years, allowing the swarm to yield twenty- 
five pounds of surplus honey each year, 
which is a low estimate, we have 150 pounds 
of honey, and one'swarm. ‘The honey is 
worth two shillings a pound, and the swarm 
Five Dollars, making $42 50. 
Now let us begin with one swarm, and 
allow the progressive increase to be one 
swarm from each of those which have be-. 
come one year old. At the end of six years 
you have 64 hives. From each hive with 
boxes might have been taken the moderate 
quantity of 25 oa of honey annually. 
