The ABC of Bee Culture by A I Root

Author:A I Root
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 1903-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

such a place, in a tin box. A baking-powder box does well. Hee-hats, smokers—in fact, a full set of every thing, may he kept In the same way.

It is pos,sible, however, to get on very well by always taking your tools with you, provided you never forget them. One day we went to the Hastings apiary, without any smoker.and we realized then how important a smoker is. Don't trust to memory. In yonr reconi-book have a list of the things you generally need to take; and after you are all in tbe wagon, or ready to get in. read aloud the list and be sure tliat every thing is in titp wagon, aa: Hats, smokers, dinner (we never forgot our dinner), chisel,etc. My own practice has been a sort of compromise between having a full kit of tools at each apiary and taking every thing iilong. If a Imggy is used, it is not cinivenient to have very much bulk. By the way, a bad season is not without its compensations. I have had two years of such dead failure that we could make almost every trip tbe entire season in a buggy, for there was no honey to haul, and little in the way of supplies.

GENERAL HANAOEHBNT OF OTTT-APIARIES.

The ways of managing out-apiaries vill be just as many as the men who mantge tbem; but the general management will be about the same aa at the home apiary. There will always be the advantage of mov-

iog at any tinie_a colony or part of a colony from one apiary to another, and feeling sure thiit tlie bees will ptay where they are put The more you are interested in out-apiariea the more you are apt t« l.e interested in the prevention of 'swarming; and if you Ijave been in the habit of wintering in llie cellar, aii out-apiary will make yon del)ate somewhat the question whether you may not lind i-'ome way of safely wintering outdoors. Some practice having a competent assistant in charge of e;ich apiary, remaining there all the time ; while [others have a RuBicient force of helpers to go from one apiary to another, doing the work of earh apiary as often as convenient, perhaps every six days or oftener.

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sliiul distance for a bco id «« In search of hooey. ItthebeeaUy three or four miles, as I think Ilierdo In pour MwBona. It Is plain tii see how It works 111 a poor season. The oulsldi! apiaries niay be gettinff a fair lliinK. wlille Ihe Inside yards are nearly starving' )n Srst^'lasH seasons, when honey Is plentiful eTerj-wbcre, and very (ow liees ini over one mile. there Is i-nouKb fui' all- I hero give the number ot bi'csln each yard this sprlnji. Ihe amount of honey taken,

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