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more care) receive proper attention ; when the profits, as from 
farm products, will mainly depend upon the season. 
“ The intelligent, practical bee-keeper, can take care of five 
hundred swarms, and make a portion of the hives needed for 
new colonies.” — U. S. Patent Office Report. 
“ The profits resulting from a judicious and proper system of 
bee culture, may be safely estimated at from one hundred to five 
hundred per cent, per annum. I have three swarms, which have 
paid me in honey and increase of stock, upwards of $100 in two 
years. The average profit upon my entire stock, for three years, 
has been three hundred and twenty-seven per cent, per annum, 
or $3.27 has been the annual profit on every dollar invested.” 
— Dr. Eddy. 
“On the 25th of April, 1858, I purchased ten hives of bees, 
in the old fashioned box hive, for $50. They were so full that 
I had to divide them before I could move them. I divided the 
ten, amd made me twenty hives. On the thirteenth day after, 
I divided ten again. I took four queens from one hive, in the 
cells, and ten from another, and gave each swarm a queen-cell, 
which hatched the next day, making thirty hives. I sold from 
those thirty hives, $547 worth of honey, and the increase of my 
bees is worth $500 more, making $1,047 in one year, from an 
outlay of $50. I took from one hive, twelve frames filled with 
honey, in fourteen days, and I had a number of hives from which 
I took twelve frames, filled with honey, in twenty-one days.” — 
E. Townly , Cincinnati , O. 
The “American Agriculturist” gives the results of the apiary 
of Bidwell Brothers, of Minnesota, for two years past. In 
