m& still have left others that are yielding 
vou a nice income and will again increase. 
[ will say that, if you are fond of carpentry 
and be near to lumber-yards, you might 
make your own hives and supers, taking 
these items off the above schedule of ex- 
penses. Or you could purchase them 
''knocked down" and simply nail them 
yourself. My advice is to buy the machine- 
cut, accurately made articles of the dealers. 
The parts all fit precisely, look better, last 
longer. I will further say that it is quite 
possible to buy a full colony of Italian bees 
in a two-story hive for $5. The apicultural 
journals frequently advertise bargains of 
this kind on account of sickness, death, re- 
moval, or other reasons. But your conser- 
vative breeder of bees, in the business for a 
living, will seldom part with a full colony of 
selected Italians for less than $9. That is 
why I counsel a beginner to get the nucleus 
and let it increase, as it will not fail to do. 
Besides, the experience is pleasant, and 
gives him information it would take him 
longer to secure. 
THE MONEY IN IT. 
If the season for honey is fair, you will 
get one super of thirty-two sections from the 
old colony, two supers (sixty-four sections) 
from the swarm. You may get two from 
the old if the queen is prolific. But w T e will 
count that only as a possible extra. I have 
had three from each. Well, that makes 
ninety-six sections. I have for years sold 
my crop of section comb honey for eighteen 
cents a section, in trade, to a fancy grocer. 
In the East, especially in country towns, I 
believe it can be marketed at about this fig- 
ure, which is a little more than it could like- 
ly be disposed for to the city commission 
men, because your grocer desires to please 
you, his patron, and he likes to advertise 
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