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ten pounds of honey, besides giving three swarms. 
The other gave two swarms and stored ninety-six 
pounds of honey ; all the young swarms filled their 
hives, and some of them stored honey in boxes. I had 
the same season, fifty-six hives of the common bees, 
but not one of these stored a pound of surplus honey, 
though a part of them were divided. This was the 
poorest honey season ever known in this section. 
“ In the summer of 1864, I averaged from nine 
Italian colonies, one hundred and eighteen pounds 
each. The best of these shows the following record in 
my journal : One full swarm taken from it the 20th of 
May ; one hundred and fifty-^ix pounds of honey taken 
in boxes; stored by the swarm, eighty pounds in a cap, 
and on the 15th of July, threw off a very large swarm, 
which filled its hive and partly filled two boxes. Thus 
we have two hundred and thirty-six pounds of box 
honey, besides two large colonies from a single hive, 
not reckoning the frames and partly filled boxes. I do 
not think a colony of the common bee ever did as 
much in the best season ; If so, let us have the record. 
“ In 1865, I had an average of ninety-three pounds 
from six Italian colonies, all of which were divided 
once, and much disturbed by taking brood from them 
to rear queens. During the same time, I did not take 
a pound of honey from any colony of common bees, 
though I divided them all, and gave each an Italian 
