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Bee Keeping: Mysteries Of Bee-keeping Explained

The swarming hive, we suppose, will throw off one swarm annually, and

make us one dollar's worth of surplus honey, (we will not reckon that

yielded by the first swarm, which is often more than that from the old

stocks,) about one third of the average in good seasons. The second

year there will be two to do the same; take this rate for ten years, we

have 512 stocks, either of them worth as much as the non-swarmer, and

about a thousand dollars worth of surplus honey. Call these stocks

worth five dollars each, which makes $2,560, all added together will

make the snug little sum of about $3,500, against $55. It is not to be

expected that any of us will realize profits to this extent, but it is

a forcible illustration of the advantages of the swarming hive over the

non-swarmer.



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