. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. would be five cents per pound. Upon this basis let me venture an estimate : 30,000 pounds sugar at 5c % 1500 This amount of sugar sliould make pounds of syrup of the weight of gi)otl lioucy from which there would be pnuliioed of comb honey. Cost of :io,(iuo pounds of honey, outside of sugar, at 5c 1000 Total cost % 2500 If this amount of syrup were fed to aOO coh)nies we find that each colony has made away with 100 pounds of syrup in wax making, food for bees and brood and for surplus stores. If this feeding be done
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. would be five cents per pound. Upon this basis let me venture an estimate : 30,000 pounds sugar at 5c % 1500 This amount of sugar sliould make pounds of syrup of the weight of gi)otl lioucy from which there would be pnuliioed of comb honey. Cost of :io,(iuo pounds of honey, outside of sugar, at 5c 1000 Total cost % 2500 If this amount of syrup were fed to aOO coh)nies we find that each colony has made away with 100 pounds of syrup in wax making, food for bees and brood and for surplus stores. If this feeding be done at a time when the extra bees produced by reason of the feeding are valuable their value with that of the extra stores should be figured out of the cost. I think wo may safely say tlie advantage to each colony has been five pounds of bees aud ten pounds of stores. Say the bees are wortij $ and the stores 50c. we have $ per each of 200 colonies $ 600 20,000 lbs. comb honey at 15c 3t00 $3600 Net profit $ 1100 There are $1100 profit to him who can keep down the cost and make use of all the re- sults. But this is not a large class. Many claim comb honey costs them 12 or 13 cents per pound to produce. Very many others we know sell their honey at 10 and 12 cents per pound. Of course tor neither of these classes can there be any profit. SUGAK FOE BBOOD AND WINTEE STOEBS. At the best, the sure percentage of profit in feeding sugar for comb honey is not very large. The extra amount of bees produced may prove of no value or even worse. [It is not necessary to produce bees unless one wishes, and the fewer bees produced the bet- ter the results in honey production.—Ei>.] And the price of honey, and especially of sugar honey, may go down so as to cut off all profit. The average bee-keeper, therefore, should be wary of the temptation to under- take the business. At least, let him make a safe use of sugar first. I suspect there is a much greater profit in feeding it for winter s
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