1887 



GLEANIXGS IN HE?: CULlliRE. 



947 



For 35 or 50 hives in ordinary location, where they 

 are not an annoyance, $10 or $15. In a good loca- 

 tion, where you can keep three or four hundred 

 hives of bees, and have the exclusive control of the 

 bee-pasturage within a radius of three miles, as can 

 be done in some locations in California, $100 is a 

 moderate rent. K. Wilkin. 



We pay 35 cents for each colony, spring count. 

 Wc have no trouble in getting all the places we 

 want at that price. The owner has nothing to do 

 with the bees. We do all the work. All five of our 

 out-apiaries are used by the owners of the land for 

 pastures for farm stock, horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, 

 etc., including poultry. E. France. 



Perhaps the same rent as would be paid for the 

 same ground for any other purpose, and more, if 

 any inconvenience is caused by the presence of the 

 bees. None of the good people where my out-apia- 

 ries are have ever taken any rent, and grumble 

 when I insist on supplying them with honey. 



C. C. Miller. 



Question No. 24.— TTVicii one possesses a series of 

 out-apiaries, is it better for him to try to winter the 

 l)ees in their several h)eations. or to cart them all home 

 and winter them i)) one location] Which way have yon 

 heen in the hahit of doing? 



See answer to No. 19. 



O. O. POPPLETON. 



Both. It is a matter of convenience. 



Geo. Grimm. 

 We always winter them on their summer stands, 

 in California. R. Wilkin. 



If I owned out-apiaries, I don't think I should do 

 much carting of them home to winter them. 



W. Z. Hutchinson. 



I have had no experience, but I should try to 

 winter them where they were, if I had such apia- 

 ries. G. M. Doolittle. 



As we winter our bees on their summer stands 

 just as they stood all summer, I have not had ex- 

 perience in the matter. Paul L. Viallon. 



I have been in the habit of wintering ray bees in 

 their own apiaries, and fully believe it to be the 

 best way. James Heddon. 



In their several locations. Never put your eggs 

 all in one basket, unless obliged to; half in the cel- 

 lar, and half upon their summer stands. 



Mrs. L. Harrison. 



I should prefer wintering in their several loca- 

 tions, if there were good cellars or other repository 

 to do it in ; if not I should cart them home. 



Dr. a. B. Mason. 



Winter them where they are. That is what we 

 do. It is too great an expense to haul them home, 

 and it docs not pay. Dadant & Son. 



That depends; I have alwayscarted mine back and 

 forth, but I should much prefer to leave them, if I 

 were where I felt safe in wintering outdoors. 



C. C. Miller. 



Every apiary should be wintered in its respective 

 location. To cart the colonies home and out again 

 in spring is unnecessary work, and an unwhole- 

 some job for the bees. 1 winter on my summer 

 stands, in single-walled hives, with a straw mat on 

 the brood-chamber, and the entrance wide open. 



Chas. F. Muth. 



I have had no experience. D. A. Jones winters 

 the colonies of each apiary at that apiary. I should 

 think that best, as I am sure very cheap and safe 

 depositories could be made, and the expense for a 

 term of years be less than to move the colonies. 

 However, I am very likely mistaken. A. J. Cook. 



With our quadruple chaff-lined hives and our se- 

 lected locations, we prefer to leave them on their 

 summer stands. We never move them to winter. It 

 would be a big job to cart them all home, and then 

 back again in spring. I would not have my bees 

 carted over the roads and back again in spring, if a 

 man would do the work for nothing. E. France. 



Circumstances would vary the case very much. 

 If you winter on summer stands, do not move them 

 unless thieves abound, or some special considera- 

 tion demands it. Hauling 50 hives of bees six miles, 

 and then back again in the spring, makes two long, 

 undesirable, and expensive jobs. Think twice, or 

 three times before you undertake it, even to get 

 them into an extra-good cellar. E. E. Hastv. 



That depends on the mode of wintering as well as 

 on the kind of hives. If the hives can be easily put 

 in shape for hauling, I think It will pay to bring 

 them home, especially if they are to be wintered in 

 the cellar. They should be taken back as soon as 

 pollen comes in the spring. I have tried both ways. 

 With ordinary hives the moving was too trouble- 

 some. James A. Green. 



Perhaps the friends by this time will have 

 noticed in this department that we are put- 

 ting the questions into groups, each group 

 or groups taking up and centering upon one 

 subject. Question No. 24 closes the six 

 questions on the subject of out-apiaries. It 

 is true, some of the replies have been some- 

 what indefinite— necessarily so. perhaps, be- 

 cause it is impossible to give a direct an- 

 swer in all cases; but even indefinite re- 

 plies, when put together, boiled down and 

 sifted, give pretty nearly a direct answer. 

 We shall continue to group the questions 

 into subjects, for a time at least. In regard 

 to question No. 22, suppose we get at the 

 cost of hiving a swarm in this way : In 

 general, charge on the basis of oO cents per 

 hour. With a lew exceptions it would not 

 take more than half an hour, and in a ma- 

 jority of cases not over 15 minutes, if you 

 have got every thing handy, empty hives, 

 tools, etc. Some colonies might cluster on 

 a limb 12 feet or more from tiie ground, in 

 which case it might be quite difficult to take 

 them down. When it is necessary to use a 

 ladder, suppose we allow 25 cents extra for 

 a swarm, in addition to the time occupied in 

 swarming it ; where there is much difficult 

 climbing, another 25 cents. This would 

 bring the price of hiving all the way from 

 lU cents up to perhaps a dollar or even two 

 dollars, the price being regulated according 

 to the time spent, and the difficulty in reach- 

 ing the swarm.— We are very much obliged 

 lor the replies to No. 23. Those who in- 

 tend to locate out-apiaries will then have 

 some sort of a basis to work from. The 

 price will depend perhaps wholly upon what 

 sort of an agreement can be arrived at. 

 This may be true likewise in the matter of 

 hiving swarms in No. 22, 



