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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 







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Fig. 3. T. -T. Wilder's 23d yard, the hoiiic vard in tlip new field. 



the production of comb honey in one-pound 

 sections; and after establishing the home 

 yard and iDacking-house at a good shipping- 

 point we began circling outyards around it 

 at a distance of three miles apart, hauling 

 all the honey to the one packing-house to 

 be prepared for market. As soon as the 

 territory got too remote we went some 

 twenty miles away and did the same thing; 

 and when this branch was similarly estab- 

 lished we went twenty miles further and 

 established a similar branch. These three 

 branches are operated solely for comb hon- 

 ey, and the honey-flow is about the same 

 at each yard. 



The business was yet not complete, and 

 we went 100 miles from the home or mother 

 yard and established another packing-house, 



Kio. i. — J. J. Wildci-'s 53d yard, the la«t one 



and around this established another series of 

 apiaries, all run solely for extracted honey, 

 which the sources of honey mostly justified. 

 When this branch was established we went 

 from it thirty miles and established another 

 branch with outyards arranged in the same 

 manner, and all run for extracted. Now our 

 bee business is complete and the 3000-colony 

 point reached, which is the extent of the 

 business at present, and what I set out to 

 accomplish. 



THE LABOR. 



The season 1 established my first outyard 

 I hired some exiDerienced help to do the 

 iiecessai-y a^Diary work I could not do alone 

 at odd times. This cost nie as much as or 

 more than I was making; but I had a job I 

 (•(iiild not lay down and pick ujd again, and 



T had to hold lo it. for 



a while at least. The 

 following season I 

 hired some more expe- 

 rienced Iielp for the 

 swarming season ; and 

 at the close of this 

 season I had five apia- 

 ries established con- 

 sisting of over 300 

 colonies. The next 

 season I gave up my 

 job, and went to the 

 bees to give them my 

 entire attention. I 

 needed some raw help 

 tlirough the rush of 

 tlie season, and for 

 tliat purpose I picked 



