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AN EXAMPLE OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING. 
Mr. D. A. Jones, of Beeton, Ontario, heads the list of successful apiarians 
and ranks as the champion bee-keeper of the world. He has kept bees from 
boyhood, beginning with the old-fashioned method, but, at length getting 
■» hold of the best modern books on bee-keeping, rapidly made his way to 
the front, and became wiser than his teachers. He attained his highesfij 
''success in 1879, when from three hundred colonies of bees he obtained 
the marvellous average of two hundred and fifty pounds of honey pec 
hive. The next year being unfavorable, the honey yield was less, but he 
largely increased his colonies in number, so that his profits from stocks and 
honey were in the neighborhood of six thousand dollars. He has now one 
thousand colonies, which, at the low average, for him, of ten dollars profit 
per hive, will yield next season ten thousand dollars. The likelihood is that 
he will double that amount of gain. Mr. Jones has visited various parts of 
Europe, including the island of Cyprus, and has also been to the Holy t 
Land in search of the best races of bees for honey storing. He has an agent, 
who is a skillful apiarian, travelling through Asia on the same errand, and 
specially charged to obtain the best specimens of a large bee called apis 
dorsata. The races of bees thus collected are being bred with great care on 
isolated islands in the Georgian Bay, various crosses made, and points of 
excellence noted with scientific accuracy. Great advances have already been 
. made in bee-breeding, and it is believed that a race of bees will yet be 
developed, that will be, like the shorthorn among cattle, far iu advance of the 
common and native breed. Mr. Jones considers that bee-keeping only, 
requires to be better understood to become a vast source of individual aud 
national wealth. As he has no secrets to hide, and is only anxious to see 
apiaculture undertaken more extensively, he is ready at all times to impart 
what he knows for the benefit of others, and has furnished for this work the ^ 
following account of the way he handles his bees with a view to securing tha 
largest amount of profit attainable from them : 
mr. jones’s way of bee-keeping. 
“My method varies somewhat with seasons aud circumstances. I will state 
It as applicable to ordinary seasons, and shaped so as to secure a moderate 
increase of stocks, along with the largest practicable yield of surplus honey. 
SETTING OUT THE HIVES IN SPRING. 
u Supposing the bees to have been wintered in a cellar or frost-proof house, 
the first care of the bee-keeper iu early spring will be to set them on tha 
•tands they are to occupy during the summer. No precise date can be given 
for doing this. I usually set out my bees on the first appearance of black 
