Southern bee culture by Wilder J. J

Author:Wilder, J. J
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bees
Publisher: [Cordele? Ga.]
Published: 1908-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

and all desirable locations marked on the map which you make while viewing the cotmtry, the apiary should, be established in the most convenient and favorable location on the map; then as soon as you have bees enough, establish another apiary at the next most favorable location, and so on until you have as many bees as you want in that section. But in occupying this home territory we should not interfere with any other bee-keeper; and it should be occupied to the greatest advantage possible for the bees. Bees penetrate the location they are in, for honey, for three or four miles; but when the hoAey-plants are in bloom, and honey is coming in, the penetration is not extended so far—one, one and a half or two miles, perhaps, so the apiaries should be 'o-cated over three miles apart, so that the bees in one yard will not gather the honey the bees in the other yards would get. Bees, like other living things that feed upon whatever mother Earth may send forth for them, may not do well in one pasture; for only a certain number are required to remove the suMJly, and all over that number will only save what others would; so too many bees should not be put in one yard. The number of colonies required to secure the honey in one location depends upon the number of honey- plants there are in it; also the uncertainity of seasons is a matter for consideration. If it is a good season there is plenty of honey in the blossoms, .ind it will require a large number of bees to gather it; but if it is a poor season the honey-plants will yield sparingly, and a great number of bees will visit the blossoms too often, and only a very small amount will be obtained by each bee; while if the visits were not so often the amount obtained by each bee would be greater. Some of our Southern bee-keepers keep from 75 to 200 colonies in one location; but the most successful ones are keeping only from 40 to 60, but located two or three miles apart, or somewhat closer than large apiaries. I have obtained better results by operating small apiaries, so I do not advocate large ones, taking the uncertainties into consideration. I would not be willing to risk my bee business if too much compacted.

There is another thing of great importance in locating out-apiaries; and that is, they should be located close to a lasting spring or stream of water, for bees consume a large amount of it during the season, especially at times when .brood-rearing is at a high pitch. Apiaries should not be located on open land some distance from the forest, because in early spring we have much high cold wind that usually plays havoc with our honey crop; and if the bees have to go across untimbered land they are beaten down by the high wind, and many of them never reach their hives.

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