MANAGEMENT OF BEES. 
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that greater profits con be realized from the same 
amount of capital, than can bo in any other property, 
if well managed. 
In the first place, tradition must be done away. The 
improvements of the day must bo observed, and ap- 
plied. The Hives our Fathers used must not be held 
sacred because they used them. Many Bee owuers 
will not use any improved Hive, but cling to the old 
miller dens, (box Hives,) suffer their Bees to be de- 
stroyed, and realizo little or no profit. 
I have used the box Hive, and various improved 
Hives, for the past ten years, and I will show you tho 
difference between the box Hive, and the best patent 
Hives. 
In the year 1842, I selected a good swarm from my 
stock, in order to ascertain the real profit of a swarm 
well managed. The first one came off the first of June. 
I hived them in a Vermont Hive, and sold the extra 
honey from the young swarm, for $10 50. They had 
plenty of honey to winter them well, and I valued 
them in December, at $5. The second swarm came 
off in fifteen days, and made plenty of honey to win- 
ter a large swarm. This was a good swarm worth in 
December, $5. The old stock made 48 lbs of extra 
honey, worth $6, amounting in all to $26 50 real profit. 
Here you discover the real gain from one swarm n 
a good hive ; and this is not us great profit ns lots been 
realized by some Apiarians. Mr. Nutt, of England, 
gives an account of receiving 296 lbs of honey from 
one swarm in a year. This amounted at 1 shilling a 
pound, to just $37. 
The income this season, from my best swarms, in 
my best constructed hives, has been from $10 to $20. 
From my best box Hives, $5 to $10, all the profits be- 
ing in swarms that came forth. 
Swarms in box Hives require more than four times 
ns much care to prevent their destruction by robbers 
and millers, as Stoddard’s Self- Protecting Hive. 
Some object that patent Hives cost so much, that one 
ternot afford them. Let "«■ look n" kl « n moment. — 
