Vol. XVII. 



SEPT. 1, 1880. 



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OUT-APIARIES, NO. XIV. 



MEMORANDUM OF WORK TO BE DONE. 



UCH method and planning- about your work 

 is not so necessary with only a few colo- 

 nies; but as the number increases it be- 

 comes more necessary; and when your 

 bees occupy two or more apiaries it be- 

 comes very necessary that you know beforehand 

 just what you are to do. So it is important, not on- 

 ly to keep a record of what has been done, but to 

 keep a concise memorandum of what is to be done. 

 This can be kept very conveniently in your record- 

 book. I usually put it in the back part of the book. 

 On the left-hand margin of the page, write the 

 dates of the month and the days of the week; and 

 as fast as you know what is to be done ahead, enter 

 the number of the colony to be treated ; and if you 

 think best, use some character or letter to indicate 

 what is to be done. I don't mean to say that every 

 thing of your regular work is to be put down, only 

 the unusual things that you might forget, especial- 

 ly those things that might make considerable trou- 

 ble if you did forget. A part of your memorandum 

 might be like this: 

 June. 



1. Sat. 5, 18, 57, 63. 

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3. Mon. 219, 234, 238, 242, 



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4. Tues 128, 146. 



259. 



5. Wed. 304, 315, 322. 



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This means, that on Saturday, June I, queen-cells 

 are to be destroyed in No. 5. See if there are any 

 eggs in 18; clip the queen of 57, and so on. You will 

 have to look at your record to see what is to be 

 done with 219, and others which have no marks 



under them. Sometimes a rainy day will occur, 

 making it necessary to change your arrangements, 

 and then you will find it of great advantage to 

 have your memorandum and your record, for then 

 you have all your apiaries before you, and can plan 

 understandingly, and not leave some important 

 thing 1 too long. 



In another place in your book, make a memo- 

 randum of any thing that you want taken to any of 

 the out-apiaries. For instance, at a certain apiary 

 where you are to-day, you find you will need so 

 many empty hives, frames, boards for stands, or 

 what not. If you trust to memory you may go 

 next time and leave some needed thing at home, 

 the lack of which may discommode you very much. 



OUT-APIARIES RUN WITH NATURAL SWARMING. 



If you are a strong advocate of natural swarming 

 you will have some one at each of your apiaries 

 during- the busy season, and it depends upon cir- 

 cumstances and your own views of management 

 whether you shall have some cheap hand, merely 

 to watch for swarms and get them hived in some 

 sort of shape, or have efficient help at each apiary 

 while you go around from one apiary to another 

 and have a general oversight over all. Adam 

 Grimm followed the latter plan, I believe. One of 

 the most successful bee-keepers in the country has 

 for each apiary a man capable of running it, and 

 each one of these lives in the village and makes a 

 report at headquarters, every evening, of the do- 

 ings of the day, going- back to his own apiary the 

 next morning. In this case each man has his own 

 conveyance, and hauls for himself the necessary 

 hives, sections, etc. In the other cases you will 

 take with you to the different apiaries whatever 

 may be needed. 



I say nothing about management of first and sec- 

 ond swarms, for I don't know that there is any 

 thing about it peculiar to out-apiaries. 



