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40th YEAR, 



CHICAGO, ILL, JANUARY 4, 1900, 



No,L 



A Lovely Apiary in Kankakee Co., 111. 



BY WM. M. WHITNEY. 



I MAIL you photographs of my bee-yard, but beg- to be 

 excused' from giving my experience as a bee-keeper at 

 this time. I'll admit that it would be amusing reading- 

 matter, were it possible for me to give an unbiast, unvar- 

 nisht account of all my operations in the few years I've 

 been studying the honej'-bee. 



You see, it would set the whole fraternity to laughing 



at me, especially the veterans, and it is so near cold weather 

 we are likely to have a sudden freeze-up, and if any of them 

 were caught in the freeze, no one can tell what the conse- 

 quences might be ; and I do not court being defendant in a 

 suit for damages for personal injury ; therefore, I will 

 simply explain in as few words as I can, the yard and sur- 

 roundings. 



In viewing the first picture we are looking nearly north- 

 west, consequently the yard fronts southeast, and the rows 

 of hives and the alleys of course run in the same direction. 



The hives are placed diagonally in the rows, and in each 

 pair of rows the hives in one front east and in the other 

 south, making everj' alternate alley entirely free from bees 

 as a passage-way, and from which the hives can be manipu- 

 lated without the least annoyance. The rows are seven 

 feet from center to center, and the hives four feet from 

 center to center in the row. The hives are so placed that a 

 line drawn along the rear of the first one will touch the 

 front of that immediately behind it ; making it very easy 



" Golden-Band Apiary" of Mr. Win. M. Whitney, of Kankakee Co., til. 



