January, 1916. 



American line Journal 



A PART OF THE DADANT HOME APIARY 



is a tight building where supers and 

 other necessary equipment are stored 

 and where the extracting is done. An 

 extractor is kept at each of the yards 

 and the honey placed in barrels as fast 

 as extracted. 



Capping cans are used to receive the 

 cappings. They are light and easy to 

 move about, yet large enough to hold 

 the cappings for an entire day's work. 

 Since all wax is rendered at home the 

 cappings are taken home at the close 

 of each day. A number of cans are in 

 use so that they may be left in the can 

 long enough to drain thoroughly. 

 Escapes are used altogether in remov- 

 ing honey, which greatly lessens the 

 annoyance from bees. Even when es- 

 capes are used, if the honey is removed 

 after the close of the flow, the bees will 

 soon be trying every possible opening 

 to find a way into the building ?nd a 

 screened entryway like that shown on 

 first page will be found very effective 



the success or failure of the venture. 



During a heavy honey flow the bee- 

 keeper with five or six hundred colo- 

 nies of bees will find it necessary to 

 step lively with even the best possible 

 arrangement. Not long since a pub- 

 lisher remarked to the writer, that he 

 had thought his offices very crowded 

 and felt the need of additional room, 

 until an expert rearranged his plant, 

 after which there was room to spare. 

 The same principle will apply to bee- 

 keeping. The man who uses a good 

 system of arrangement from start to 

 finish will easily find it possible to care 

 for a much larger number of colonies 

 than would be possible with a careless 

 arrangement. The position of the 

 honey-house in relation to the apiary, 

 the position of the extractor in the 

 honey-house, the readiness with which 

 tools and equipment can be reached 

 when needed and similar small matters 

 will make a great difference in the 

 amount of work which can be done in 

 a day. The elimination of a few un- 

 necessary steps each day will make it 

 possible for a man to care for another 

 colony or two and add something to 

 the sum total of the season's produc- 

 tion. 



At each of the Dadant apiaries there 



AT THE SACK APIARY A FALL FLOW SELDOM FAILS 



THE HOLLAND OUTYARD 



in keeping them out. They go to that 

 part of the screen nearest the honey- 

 room, instead of trying to get in at the 

 first door, while the man are bringin 

 in the filled supers, the few who find 

 their way through the first door rarely 

 go through the second door. 



After the last extracting, some bee- 

 keepers pile up the empty extracting 

 combs in the open air and permit the 

 bees to clean them out. This is not 

 good practice for several reasons; it 

 encourages robbing at a bad season of 

 the year and the bees damage the 

 combs. We consider it much better to 

 place the supers back on the hives in 

 about the same proportion in which 

 they were removed. If several are 

 placed on one hive the bees will not 

 go down again to cluster as readily as 

 when only one or two are present. 

 The supers are usually removed on a 

 frosty morning when the bees are clus- 

 tered below. It is annoying to find a 

 lot of bees still in the upper super, as 

 may occur when the supers are placed 



