BEE CULTURE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3640, 16 October 1890, Page 2

BEE CULTURE.

4 Muster-ton resident has received the' firm of A, I, Root, manufacturers of apiarian supplies, and publishers of" Gleanings itv Bee Culture," the following afcatiatics in . ■" regard to foe hop of % honoy-bees jn borne in mind that this hi the ' bußinoß3 of one firm only i-It may ba . of interest to many "of our readers to learn somethibg of the extent of the ■ bee-keepers' supply business carried on at the Home of the Honey-Bees far the paßf year. As we have had to collect statistics for the census bureau m give you some of the results of our investigations. We glva you figures in round nutnbere, within d very few of- tho actual count, 'alld more easily remeihbefidi The' Whole fiiimbcr'o! hives of we mad&Vaaij' little oyer' B&flOO/ of whiiK We'-wt3 ; 20,000 Dovetailed, 10,'000 Sim. k plicity, 3000 Portico, 1700 two-story chaff, and 1450 one-story chaff, The previous year, whon'tlie Dovetailed |iive was introduced, about March,' it roaehed W rfale of 4200, and 12,0(10 ; J Simplicity jm wM.' 'p|s '* tbjjt tHiB Horefailed "hiVa has taken ita place rapidly at the head of tho list, and made the whole number of 3implicit|es diminish when every* thing else has increased. For convenience we will arranga ihe statistics in the form of a table, lomparing a few items with tha ■lumber produced a year ago, which was our largest year until the present; By this you wi|l gee <thb grist iti* the reason fit'' oijf' fying" so behind on 'ordirs, 1 ancl having to run day and night to fill them, Quantity produced and told

frnStpl, 188&|&n(, 'B9 to Sept. 1889 Jan. 'OO Dovetailed hives . 4,200 *O,OOO SirapKcity hives 13,000 10,flW Two storejfcunft hives f,mo . I'd Qne.;storey otiait hfeea' MB 1:458 RtqoJ ffatnftSitqpeije 3G,OQQ ' 600,005 One,pics# icotioni 5,000,000 0,600,000 IVeSglit offreightshipmeati 1,350,0001b5a,250,000 Tho number of sbipmeata by freight fori year is about 7003, and. bj ~ express 300. The average number of haacji employed for a yet; iw btty

. I It ' """• HlS*«nd the amount paid thum ' $40,0u0, Wo have turned out 20,000 Clarke's smokers in a year; and 75 ■! tasks oi COOlbs each, of sheetzinc, has been made into qiteon-excludiug metal making Of the six and a half million sections sold, wo bought from other makers 1,310,000, and would have bought many move if we could huve got them, rather than send out man; made from dark and poorly seasoned lumber that we had to send in order to Gil ordors at all,