. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 19, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 751 have not mentioned. Nine of tlie box-hives that I had were " on shares," and the owner got soared at the expense and risk of trans- ferring, and sold out to me. So S'iO more must be added, mailing •* for 1903, and j! tor the apiary complete. Also, there arises another item of expense in the loss of hoaej' entailed by , and the loss of 3 colonies in the same operation. Thus, I started with 11 colonies and got U swarms, so would have 20 colonies in box- hives. I have averaged
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 19, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 751 have not mentioned. Nine of tlie box-hives that I had were " on shares," and the owner got soared at the expense and risk of trans- ferring, and sold out to me. So S'iO more must be added, mailing •* for 1903, and j! tor the apiary complete. Also, there arises another item of expense in the loss of hoaej' entailed by , and the loss of 3 colonies in the same operation. Thus, I started with 11 colonies and got U swarms, so would have 20 colonies in box- hives. I have averaged about 50 pounds sur- plus honey per colony for the past 3 years, and have ready sale for all the chunk honey I can produce at 12'._. cents per pound. So that even if none of theswarms had given any sur- plus. I would have 550 pounds of honey, or ? Instead of which I have It'i colonies, and 2 of the transferred colonies had to feed 25 pounds of syrup for winter supplies, and I got only ?10 worth of surplus honey; thereby losing .*. making the total expense for apiary, ?; Had I continued to use box- hives the expense would have been ml. Thus, you will readily see that not many farmers (and they are the people that will be generally found using box-hives) can contem- plate the expense of buying modern hives and all the many necessary appliances they entail with any degree of equanimity. You will un- derstand that I expect it to pay mr well (not- withstanding the expense), or I should not have entered on the necessary expense for the next 3years. But most users of the box-hives couldn't, and wouldn't, stand the expense, even if they knew that they would double or treble their honey crop. So as I began so must I end—the expeiise en- tailed in using modern hives and appliances is responsible for the continued use of the despised "box.'' A Bee-Keeper in Virginia. Augusta Co., Va., Oct. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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