First Lessons in Beekeeping by Camille Pierre Dadant

First Lessons in Beekeeping by Camille Pierre Dadant

Author:Camille Pierre Dadant
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00


139 . The advantages derived from the use of comb foundation are three-fold. In the first place, as we have said before, beeswax costs the bees a probable average of ten pounds of honey per pound of comb. Beeswax when rendered has an approximate value of from twenty-five to thirty-five cents per pound. The same article made into comb foundation costs at retail from fifty to seventy-five cents per pound. Counting our honey at only twelve cents, there is almost a doubling of the investment by buying comb foundation and saving the bees all this labor.



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