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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



with telescope cover and "portico," and 

 were all made by hand by myself. In 

 March, 1897, my father died, and I came 

 home from Texas and took charge again; 

 after which the yards were known as the 

 Maple Vale Apiaries. The honey from 

 these apiaries has never sold for less than 

 15 cents, and some has brought us 20 

 cents per pound in section, and premiums 

 at the fairs when entered. But the main 

 use to which the apiaries have been put 

 since 1893 is experimental work, when I 

 introduced the first Italian bees our coun- 

 try ever had. Carniolans, Golden Ital- 

 ians, Holy Lands, and Albinos have each 

 been tried to a limited extent. Imported 

 Italians have, however, proven the best 

 for this country, and now all our country 

 is stocked with "John Grimsley's bees." 



Failing health required me to abandon 

 the work for a time, and I again tried 

 South Texas, hoping to recuperate, but 

 with little success. I will likely try 

 Florida this winter, and hope for recovery. 



Byrdstown, Tenn., June 28, 1900. 



MANAGING OUT-APIARIKvS 

 WITH NO HONEY-HOUSE 

 AT EACH APIARY. BY 

 H. ?I. HYDE. 

 In my last article on out-apiaries, noth- 

 ing was said about a honey-house for 

 each a])iary, for the reason that we do 

 not use a honey- 

 house at o u t - 

 apiaries. A large 

 building at our 

 h o m e - a p i a r y 

 answers for the 

 storing of hives, 

 supers, etc. ; and 

 we have a special 

 wagon for haid- 

 ing bees, empty 

 hives, supers, 

 honey, etc. ; be- 

 sides, we use what we call a traveling ex- 

 tracting-house, which is placed on our 



special wagon when we wish to extract 

 honey. 



Our wagon has what is called the Cali- 

 fornia width of track; viz: 5 feet 2 inches. 

 The running gear is constructed of heavy 

 oak wood; the wheels are the Electric 

 steel wheels, with tires four inches wide. 

 The front wheels are 28 inches high, and 

 the hind wheels ^ inches. The gear and 

 wheels will hold up five or six thousand 

 pounds, and are so constructed that the 

 front wheels turn clear under the bed. 



On this gear we constructed a bed 12 

 feet long, and 4 feet 2 inches wide, out- 

 side measurement. The inside is 48;^ 

 inches wide. The bolsters come through 

 holes cut in the right place in the bed. 

 The first part of the bed is really a plat- 

 form only 6 inches deep; then comes the 

 bed-sides proper, which are J 2 inches 

 wide. On these we can put as many side 

 boards as we like. We also use a heavy 

 pair of wagon springs on the wagon when 

 hauling supers, honey, etc., often using 

 four mules or horses, and hauling four or 

 five thousand pounds at a time. 



By using this outfit we haul all our 

 supers home in the fall, clean them up 

 and fill them with foundation during the 

 winter, when not otherwise busy, and 

 take them back to the apiaries in the 

 spring. In this connection it should be 

 noted only the comb honey supers are 

 hauled, and that all extracting bodies of 

 comb remain on the hives all winter. 

 During the spring we haul out all the 

 hives and supers that we will probably 

 need during the season; and by carrj'ing 

 large loads, only a few trips are needed. 



There are three tilings that we have 

 found vitally necessary in managing out- 

 apiaries; they are, first, a good stock of 

 bees with good queens; second, plenty 

 of room for the I)ees and plenty of room 

 for the queens to lay; third, plenty of 

 honey in the hives at all limes. Around 

 these three things centers the success- 

 ful management of out-apiaries at all 

 times. I can but emphasize the import- 

 ance of a good race of bees and good 

 queens. \'ery much has been written 



