205 
from those thirty hives $547 worth of honey, and the 
increase of my bees is worth to me $500 more, making 
$1,047 >n one year, from an outlay of $50. I took 
from one hive twelve frames filled with honey in four- 
teen days, and I had a number of hives from which I 
took twelve frames, filled with honey in twenty-one 
days.” — E. Town ley, Cincinnati , O. 
Accounts of Bidwell Brothers, of Minnesota, for 
1866, in the “ American Agriculturist 
“ Our aim the past season was to get our bees into 
frame hives, and Italianized, and to secure the largest 
possible amount of surplus honey. 
Bees have generally done poorly in our State this 
season, on account of wet weather ; our statement for 
this year is as follows : 
At the beginning of the season we had — 
204 swarms of black bees, worth $2,026 00 
One years’s interest at 10 per cent, on the value of bees, 
hives and apparatus 322 00 
At the close of the season the account stands 
15,347 lbs. of honey $3,899 11 
252 “ “ wax, at 35c 
256 swarms of Italian bees, worth 5,12 
Total 
Deduct above amount 
$2,342 
OO 
$3,899 
I I 
88 
20 
5,120 
OO 
$9,107 
31 
2,342 
OO 
Leaves profit 
$6,865 3 1 
