The morning times., 1896-07-05
Women Engaged in This Bust.
ness Can Be Able to Count on
Large Profits on Very
Small Invest.
ment.

second year her profits were 5000. With
several hundred colonies sf bees. and after
one has learned from experience how to
successfully manage her apiary less Will
not satisfy her thereis no reason why ther..
should not be clear profit OF $1,000 d
year.
One who speaks with authority saws
there Is no occupation which offers larger
returns for the capital invested. True,
bee keeping requires hard work." he adds.
but this Is only for portion of the
year" 1 have known woman TO give
up a $500 salary to engage In bee
keeping.
Then, besides the honey sold. one can
also raise queens for the market One
thousand dollars worth of Italian queens
have been sold during year by one sue
| cessful apiarist.
In ordinary seasons one colony of bees,
lf industrious and attending strictly to
business, Will produce from 80 to 100
pounds of honey. This should be sold for
20 cents a pound.
As to the first outlay-to recapituIate,
as we used 70 say in our French gram
mars:
Two colonies of bees and express
charges -..---..-.--.----.-..-.- S10.50
One best imported queen.... 500
Three movable frame hives. 800
One smoker so
Extra hives will be needed before the
season for colonization.
Rubber g.oves are not strongly recon-
mended for handling bees, as the naked
hand is considered better for working
| among them. A pair or rubber gloves cost
S1.35; a veil about 40 cents The wells
are OF silk and cotton tulle, made with a
rubber cord in the top and the lower edge
bound with blue ribbon to prevent fra wing.
When the bees are purchased. put one
colony at once where it is to stay: divide
the second colony. placing oHe-haif in ore
hive and one in another. The half Colonies.
before tie season is over. will have he
come enlarged ana may be again divided.
WIKI the orig nal full colony one learns
the process OF moving swarm and tow
to maDage it.
When bees give indication of swarming.
by clustering idly outside t he hive in large
numbers. the frames must he lifted out and
searc1ed until the queen Is found, when
she, with the frame she is on, must bs
pld ced in tie center of new hive. and be
flanSed on eitler side by another comb as
full Of scaled brood as can be obtained.
Fill up both bives with new frames fur
nishcd with empty combs and shake into ur
before the entrance of the bive, where the
queen is. Sufficient bees to form i largs
swarm.
Before commencing this swarming pro-
cess little tobacco snIuke sLouid he puffed
into the hive. This alarms the bees and
causes them 10 Ill tEeir Money pBuCieS
and Il bee in this state never volunteers
an attacS-hence their fair mistress need
have no fear of stingS-
The singing propensity of the bee ant
its swarminG habit have been considered
the two objections to the keeping Of hecsby
women. but when looked into there seemstG
be nothing very Formidable on this side oi
the question.
In time. as you become rich 90 through
keeping bees. and wish to buy few more
acres of land it is a good thing to raiss
honey-beaTinE flowers. Clover-th white
German furnishes i honey superior to the
world famous hymettus; buckwheat is q
rich source, and il blossoms after white
clover has ceased 10 yield. Homer made
from buckwheat is dark colored. but easily
sold. because useful in making cough mix
lures. White sage. which grows in ths
West. makes good honey.
Travellers who have visited certain parti
in France. VIII recall the pretty sight made
by the floating bee houses. Three or five
score of bee hives are put on board i barge,
which is fiCated gently down stream The
bees choosing their flowery pasture along
the banks of the stream and thus a single
floating bee-house yields The proprietor
considerable income.
DIANA CRoSSWAYs.