A BEE FARM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 343, 18 December 1879, Page 2

A BEE FARM.

hear the village of Beetnn, County of South Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, there is a bee farm which is probably ono of the most extensive and successful things in the world. It consists of four bee yards < situate at the angles of a square, which embraces several square miles of country, The current year, so far, lias proved favorable for honey. Mv D. A. Jones, the owner of the farm, had at the end of July already secured 50,0001bs of honey from C2O stocks of bees. The Canada Farmer asserts that this statement is an absolute fact. Each yard covers about an acre of ground, carefully enclosed, and contains, besides the hives, and summer storerooms, a house for wintering the bees, The hives used, are oblong p boxes, with a capacity of 3240 inche Jthe mside measure being 15 by 18 by 12(\ Mr Jones' four bee yards contain 250, 150, and 79 of such hives respectively, and h£-, reckons 30,000 bees a good swarm for one of them. He expects a total yield for the year of 70,0001bs of honey from his 19,000,000 little workers, in which case inn™?, net betweeell 7000dols. and 10,000c1013, for the year's product, without taking into account the sale of swarm or of queen bees. The successful apiarist estimates the year's total outlay at 2100 dols. nearly half of which, however, is interest on capital which has grown up with the business.