1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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HESStL-HAl L ^ APIARV I.V NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, OR WHAT WAS LEFT OF IT AFI ER 

 IT WAS DESTROYED BY A " BUSH " FIRE. 



wish, along rojv No. \. This will make it eas- 

 ier for you to locate the rows or streets quickly. 

 While this plan is better suited than any other to 

 an apiary where tha hives are in a more or less 

 compact body, it also works well where the hives 

 are in a double row, as when shade-sheds are 

 used. 



Grand Junction, Colo. 



Furthermore, many of our best honey-trees do 

 not flower every year. 



Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 



[The same is true here to a great extent of both 

 trees and plants. — Ed.] 



GASOLINE-ENGINE EXTRACT- 

 ING OUTFIT ON WHEELS. 



HONEY-PLANTS IN AUSTRALIA DE- 

 STROYED BY BUSH FIRES. 



A Fully Equipped Portable Outfit. 



BY VIRGIL SIRES. 



BY HARRY STEPHENS. 



I am sending a photograph of the apiary of 

 Mr. W. Hessel-Hal), .\I. A., at Lapstone, near 

 Sydney, New South Wales. This photo shows 

 the devastation wrought by a bush fire which 

 swept over his property about New Year's day. 



We find Gleanings of engrossing interest, 

 althougli half the year it deals with conditions 

 quite foreign to us in a land where there is very 

 little frost and no ice or snow. Our honey is 

 almost entirely the product of bush blossoms; 

 and while we have no winter, as you understand 

 it, we have our own difficulties in the way of a 

 diminished honey-flow through drouth, and the 

 destruction of blossoming timber by bush fires. 



I am sending some views of our apiary located 

 on the Yakima Indian reservation. These show 

 our extracting-house on wheels, which we used 

 last season extracting about 20 tons of honey. 

 This outfit has not proven entirely satisfactory, 

 and we are yet undecided which is the better 

 method with our yards, scattered as they are, to 

 have a permanent extracting-house and a wagon 

 rigged to haul the combs of honey from the dif- 

 ferent yards to th's central location to be extract- 

 ed, or to do as we did last season — go from yard 

 tojard with the outfit mounted on wheels, as 

 shown in the engraving. This season we prob- 

 ably shall do as we did last year — make some im- 

 provements in the outfit, and give the plan a more 

 thorough trial. 



