A LADY BEE FARMER.
The Wagga Advertiser says that a female school teacher, not a great wayfrom Albury, started three years ago last summer with one swarm of bees in a soap box. At the end of the three seasons she had realised for honey and wax the sum of £7O in cash, and her stock of hives numbered 60. Besides, her family had made daily use of the honey. All the hives were the ordinary soap boxes, and they were placed on the ground. With proper barfmme hives and supers, and skill in managing, no doubt a much larger success would have resulted; but this ought to satisfy farmers that bee-farming would pay. The lady referred to had no previous experience with bees, nor any work on bees for guidance.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1102, 12 April 1880, Page 3
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