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i' ui 1. — .i. .). Wilder's first yard i» tlie process of being transferred. 



iei»iitation of being great swarmers. It is 

 not wortli Avliile to obtain such stock and 

 expect to breed or run this natui'al inclina- 

 tion out of it, for it will give you trouble 

 sooner or later. To save experimenting and 

 a lot of dissatisfaction let me say that you 

 will not find such good traits in any bees 

 that breed up slowly and then when the 

 queens do become very active, and the colo- 

 ny reaches a very high pitch, soon fall back 

 and proceed throughout the season in this 

 up-and-down manner. Trouble is practi- 

 cally sure to follow at or near these high 

 points, while no honey is secured at the low 

 points. 



What we want is a strain that will breed 

 up earh' in the spring, and liold their own 

 throughout the season. 

 Such bees are good 

 lioney-gatherers, and 

 almost non-swarmers. 

 T have found the gray 

 (Caucasians far supe- 

 rior in these points to 

 any of the other races 

 of bees. 



OUT-APIARIKS. 



Here was the critical 

 point in my beekeep- 

 ing life, and one that 

 ie(|uired more careful 

 study than any other 

 fn order to jiroceed 

 I properly. Had it not 

 l)e('ii that tlie business 

 was so well on my 

 mind and heart I might 



ha\e done so if T had 

 proceeded with noth- 

 ing definite as to the 

 extent of it. Friends 

 were advising me not 

 to start out on such 

 a venture. Then, too, 

 1 had been out over 

 the country and made 

 investigation as to hon- 

 ey-plants in different 

 sections. Also, 1 had 

 visited some progres- 

 sive beekeepers. These 

 things, together with 

 what I had read from 

 bee publications, were 

 sources of encourage- 

 ment to lead me out 

 and on. 



Well, I started out 

 with willing hands. 

 Each year for a long 

 time I increased my 

 bees and outyards nearly 100 per cent. I 

 established the outyards from 2i/^ to 3i/^ 

 miles apart, and extended the line of yards 

 in six diiferent directions as convenient to 

 highways and railroads as possible. Some 

 of the remote yards at the end of these lines 

 were 30 miles from the home yard. During 

 this time I had erected and equipped a good 

 honey-house at the home yard, and l.ad 

 found that it was more economical to haul 

 all honey to this house to be packed. This 

 business was run for chunk honey solely, as 

 the grade of honey would suit such packing 

 better. 



Our business was incomplete, and we went 

 to the new field, about 200 miles away, 

 where the lioney-flow was suitable, solely for 



Via. 2. — The first yard just after transferring 



