WHAT IT COSTS TO BEGIN BEE-KEEPING. 
Note.— Any discrepancy in the cost figures here 
named will be accounted for by the advance or de- 
crease in price of the articles given since this was 
written. 
Wherever you are— town, city, or country 
— I believe the following table will represent 
about your entire expense for entrance into 
the charming pursuit of keeping bees. It 
is my estimate for a year. The second sea- 
son you will have increase of bees to provide 
for, but your proportional outlay will be 
much less, since some of your outfit is good 
for years, perhaps a lifetime. You will prob- 
ably have one swarm each summer from ev- 
ery colony you had in the spring. You can 
have more if you desire. Your only new 
expense will be the hive and section-crate 
for the swarm, some additional section box- 
es to go into the super, and a little more 
comb foundation: 
One-story hive, Danz. style $1.95 
One section-crate or super, Danz. style — 1.15 
One hundred section boxes for surplus honey ... .75 
One pound extra-thin comb foundation 70 
One Junior smoker 65 
One bee-veil 40 
One more hive for a swarm 1.95 
One more section super 1-15 
Old gloves and old straw hat 00 
One bee-culture book 1.25 
Two-frame nucleus Italian bees and queen 4.00 
A one-story hive is so named because it is 
the lower portion in which the colony is 
housed, raises its young, stores its supplies 
for food. In manufacturers' price lists what 
I have spoken of as a section-crate is often 
called a "super," because it holds the thir- 
ty-two section-boxes for surplus honey and 
is set above the body, the bees crawling up 
into it and going to work. The section box- 
es are narrow strips of basswood, kerfed in 
three places so that each one will fold into 
a little square. Those for the Danzenbaker 
hive (popularly known as "Danz.") when 
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