. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VOL. Ul—NO. 4 HAMILTON, ILL., APRIL, 1921 MONTHLY, $ A YFAit PACKAGE BEES BY DAVID RUNNING MY experience with package bees began in the spring of 1917, and has continued each year since. My records show as follows : 1917—Twenty 2-pound packages of bees delivered at my station April 27, cost $ each, at shipping point. Ex- press charges were 27c each and they were fed about 5 pounds (one comb) of honey each, which at 17c per pound would equal 85c, making a total cost of $ -per colony or package. These 20 packages produced a total of 1,675 po
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. VOL. Ul—NO. 4 HAMILTON, ILL., APRIL, 1921 MONTHLY, $ A YFAit PACKAGE BEES BY DAVID RUNNING MY experience with package bees began in the spring of 1917, and has continued each year since. My records show as follows : 1917—Twenty 2-pound packages of bees delivered at my station April 27, cost $ each, at shipping point. Ex- press charges were 27c each and they were fed about 5 pounds (one comb) of honey each, which at 17c per pound would equal 85c, making a total cost of $ -per colony or package. These 20 packages produced a total of 1,675 pounds of honey, or an aver- age of 83^ pounds per colony, which at 17c per pound would bring $ of $ per colony, making a net return of $ per package. Ten 2-pound packages delivered May IS, or 18 days later than the other 20 cost $3 per package at ship- ping point. The express charges were 37j^c per package, and these were also fed about S pounds of honey each, which at 17c per pound equals 85c, making a total cost of $}-4 per package or colony. These 10 colonies produced 585 pounds of honey, or an average of 58^ pounds per colony, which at 17c per pound would equal $, or $^ per colony, making a net return of $ per colony. You will notice from these figures that the packages received first gave me $^ per package more than those which were delivered 18 days later, or an average of 23c per day for each package for the 18 days. .'\11 30 arrived in good condition. 1918—100 2-pound packages were ordered for delivery between April 25 and May 1. Owing to the congested conditions of transportation and to the fact that not enough food was al- low-ed, this lot of bees arrived in very poor condition, many being entirely dead, so that only 39 were built up out of the lot. The shipper made good a portion of the loss, so that the 39 cost, delivered at my station, $, Three hundred pounds of honey was fed at 25c per pound, equaling $75, making
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