Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1880): First Edition. — John Shaqi
Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1880): First Edition.Cotton, Lizzie E., Mrs.
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Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1880): First Edition.
Cotton, Lizzie E., Mrs.
Bee culture; Bees
The present season (1880.) one stock in a Controllable Hive, in
the month of June, without being fed or having extra care, yielded
seventy-two pounds of surplus honey in glass boxes. Another, treated
in the same manner, yielded over eighty pounds surplus, in the same
time. Another new swarm, since the first week in June, filled the brood
frames with honey, and produced thirty-eight pounds of surplus in glass
boxes, (filling eight boxes as full as they could be crowded,) and gave
me a large swarm the last week in June.
When box honey brings from thirty-three to thirty-five cents a pound,
_gross weight_, my usual yearly average is a little over fifty dollars
clean profit from the sale of box honey, from each stock of bees I
keep. I intend to keep about twelve stocks each season. I sometimes
have a much greater number; yet it is my purpose to keep only this
number each season, for the production of surplus honey, swarms, etc.
My average yield of surplus box honey is about two hundred pounds
(perhaps a trifle less) from each hive of bees that I keep, during each
season, _when swarming is prevented and each stock liberally fed_.
I will here give the testimony of a few of the many, who have adopted
the plan of bee management recommended in this work. I should give
the name and post-office address of each, were it not for the fact
that they would receive so many letters of inquiry, as to make it very
disagreeable to them. _I have the original and complete letters in my
possession, and such letters I am prepared to show at any time._ My
object in presenting this testimony here, is to show that the system of
bee management recommended herein is not only successful with me, but
with all intelligent bee keepers, as well.
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