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Ministry of Domains has granted permission to the peasants to estab- 
lish hives in the crown forests, under the precautions necessary to 
prevent the occurrence of conflagrations. 
The total production of wax in Russia is estimated at 5,412,000 
pounds per annum ; and, as the usual calculation is three pounds of 
honey to one of wax, this supposes a production of 16,236,000 pounds 
of honey, the whole being valved at $2,250,000. d. j. b. 
CONDENSED C O REE SP O ND E N CE . 
Statement of Henry Eddy, of North Bridgewater, Plymouth county, 
Massachusetts. 
1 have had much experience in the production of “artificial colo- 
nies,” and also in what is termed the “non-swarming” system of 
bees. But I have abandoned both, and am satisfied that the bees 
know the best time and mode of conducting their colonisation. I do 
not feed my bees with the expectation of obtaining thereby surplus 
honey for market ; for no one receives back the amount he thus feeds, 
and what he does receive, is not much changed nor improved. I 
adopt the natural system of swarming, destroy no bees, but keep 
them alive and at work ; and, if I have any advantage over others, it 
consists in placing them in circumstances under which full scope is 
given to their instincts. My profits from bee culture seldom fail 
from the loss of colonies in winter, or by depredations of the bee- 
moth at other seasons. By the mode I pursue, certain swarms are 
made to pay, in the increase of stock and honey, a profit of 100 per- 
cent., while others give from 500 to 600 per cent. The average profit 
upon my entire stock, for several years, has been 327 per cent, per 
annum. I accomplish this by the use of a hive of my own 
construction. 
My surplus honey sells readily in market for 25 cents a pound. 
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