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Show Profits In Bees. Why not try a few bees this coming season? Your son or daughter with a little financial aid may wish to try a few. It helps to "keep the boy on the farm," and that is where he is most needed. It Is not out of line for the women folk. If you wish bees, don't make the women take care of them. If they wish them, lend a hand, says a writer in the Beekeeper. My best colony in 1910 paid me $16 in comb honey and increase. This was the best, and one of many. I presume I spent two hours on its care, and the supplies for same cost about $1, besides be-sides the use of two hives which are nearly as good now as one year ago. Some did nearly as well, some barely paid their expenses, and a few were losers. The whole apiary averaged about $5 per colony. I am a farmer as well as a beekeeper. Reader, Join In, be a beekeeper as well as a farmer; add to your table what some of the rich are denied good honey three times per day the whole year round. |