The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-17 00:00:00

REE-KEEPING FOR PROFIT.

Maiming bum for study seri curiosity is ass thing. bat
maatn4 Isosay out of them. year idler year, la quit.
eh -that' Keeren• bees f, • littls table luxury is
often very expeasive. as met class. of this kiad overdo
the inatt.r, and kill their pet. y too much attention.
Kseeink best en • brie ora'r, witts u rs•us knoelaters of
maissoment, is suansthin4 late • I.rge farm poorly
managed--eonaiderabts experts* and small imams.

But either bee-keeping or farm's( on • large or small
scale will and doss pay tease who have brains to comers-
head the situation, and make all the conditions favourable
Is enacess. Bess newt notecase than the average number
of !leapt* are in the habit of giving =ern. Tarns are
malty different care. to ended to, and the =elect of one
might prove a lots. Good white hooey, mill sealed.
should bs left In tbe brood-chamber to last them lin year
round • otherwise, if they go iota wintx quarter. with
late disk basset unsealed the honey is very apt to &Alf
and give them the dysentery, and they die of Manes.
Worker opeabi should be kept in the middle of the hire
la much ea p semble, and all drone comb placed in the
upper none. AVW colony should MI both lower and
upper storeys of the hive by June in order to obtain the
ere .test possible am 'lst of honey. Feediag a little liquid
honey from the middle of April till Jona swill assist in
PaPuletnis a hive early enough for the boner flow.
Swarming mean. incense of lb. apiary, and that doess not
mean honey. If there is plentl of forage, sad the bee-
=spot has help, without too mach =Pane. the Unman
of the =tory will fill the neap= of reasonable espects-
Mon- Tin prevention of swarnisel omens hew. Now
the point, plainly *Wad. is this: Which will brim ne In
the most messy, boast or bees I If a colony of WWI hay.
int surplus honey from the upper stony will bring as
much money as their increase whim run for increase „than
swivels course will Gus moat surely bring us profit? Iron
Pest eXpenence I would ran for bossy,_ because the
demand for honey is on the Inane... Bees are °sly
wanted for honey and wax, and honey and was only base
• commercial vslue, while the value of bees is United to
Lb. roducin .7 clean only, and whethee there will bs •
demand depends entirely ea =foreseen circumstances

&come in this business depend. largely on the queens
Old queens should be ropiscod by young ones whenever they
masa lob. prolific With the prth Leal bee-keeper rearing
(peens from inferior mothers is away@ avoided, for
moons that good and prolific queens rely cc. Proktaba.
Thg real you. of good queens is hard to over-estioute.
While poor oties are worth than useless- Queens can be
introduced et say time daring the mason, but more ant-
cowbell, goring a good hooey dow. Good queens are
ko ,wa by proligcness lead the vigour and activity of their
progeny, sod are not limited to say partictia.br Laos of
boss. solitaire of tbe didersos races being the
Outdoor wintering and double: woll hives know nail
of, having never tried them. I have been very aGM
in wint-rtag so ler, and so long as I succeed with.
hots." I shell let well enough alone. Ventilation is.,
thick, of great importhaos while ben are le winner
gunners and upward ventilation is the most eseential.
In mewing for ei late...quilts should offer be lald directly
on lb. frames, an open apses over the frames le indLepens-
able.
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t. base source by which the moisture can escape
and the boat be retained; the bem Mao can hare complete
acme' somas the frames; the heat Is evenly dietrib,kd
over the brood-chamber. and the bees will remein on be
frame, instead of Mustering in smell squads between the
oembe to chill sod die. ?lie above mamas, I. my mind,
are conclusive on this subject.
Is conclusion, I would my to those jest embarking in
the business, acquaint yourselves with the proper wante
or Me bisect ail samosa of the year. and attend to them ;
otherwise, better let Mem aiooll.—irk PIKE (in !wriest*
Bee Jeurrtel).

Tits CLISUS te runs. —The remit of the census in
France is not yet &Annie* hewn, but the return. for
Paris me aimed, complete. Ti. plants' ion of the Trench
capital is no. Aff6.910 RlRSieel 1,995,606 five years ago,
when the previCen CelleeS was taken, thus showing an
increase of 237,106 rails. The total p ipulation of the
department of the &doe. including Paris, ii 2.751810,
Showing an increme of 30,541.
Hottaway's Pitla.—lnaiHde distracted by indigestion
and discouraged in theiy mem& for its remedy should
make trial of the never-failing medicine. A laiy, longs
martyr to dyepeptio tortures, lintel that Holloway'. pills
male her feel es if s burden had hewn taken of her. Her
f0,na...1y low, have (neatly Improved; her caprl-
cioue appetite has Riven place to healthy hunger te
dull, sick headache he. departed, sad gradul eo mar-
vellous a change bee been effected, that she is together
a new creature, end again At for Ma duties. me ?Ilk
hitl be Ildmiciatwilid with WM, to the moat delicate.
They sever act hardily, nor do they ever hams week-
lies ; theY NMI/ direct dersaged, sad mire' suesolve.
&dice.