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breadthjSO tliat the lid will fit both, and when 

 the second story is off, the lid covers the 

 first, which should be in earlj^ spring for 

 the benefit of the young brood. 



AH honey boards were discarded in my 

 apiary years ago, and I don't dream of 

 adopting them again. Where comb honey 

 is the object, every one can use his own box 

 on the hive described. 



My experience is, that bees build combs 

 and store honey the fastest when kept in a 

 large body; e. g., put a strong swarm in a 

 barrel, and as a general rule they will 

 gather more honey, placing it in one large 

 bulk, than if forced into several small 

 apartments to deposit their stores. Now, 

 taking advantage of this instinct of the bee, 

 we are forced to the conclusion that the 



fine honey-producing plant, but others dis- 

 card it. While under the foregoing con- 

 ditions of the atmosphere and earth, it 

 never fails, but when under the influence of 

 a dry, heated atmosphere and parched 

 earth, it is worthless. 

 Camargo, 111. A. Salisbury. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



City Bee-Keeping. 



The principal reason for getting this cut 

 made was to show our bretnren an apiary 

 in a city. I have had to describe it already 

 dozens of times. The cut tells the story at 

 once. Besides this front row of hives fac- 



APIARY OF C. F. MUTH, IN THE CITY OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



ingenuity of man must be equal to the 

 emergency, and work bees in large bodies, 

 and yet have the honey put up in small 

 frames or sections of about 2 lbs. each,when 

 divided and ready for the market. 



III. As to good foraging we need only 

 say it is altogether dependent on the season 

 and locality. 



The first indication throwing its light 

 into the future of the coming year, is a 

 damp, open winter, that not only lets live, 

 but feeds the roots of all perennials, so they 

 vegitate with vigor at the proper season of 

 the year. Where the earth is covered most 

 of the winter with her snowy mantle the 

 results are the same. All honey-producing 

 plants secrete most honey under the in- 

 fluence of a damp, warm atmosphere, and 

 the earth in a moist condition. It has been 

 claimed by some that buckwheat is a 



ing south and running east and west, there 

 are three more I'ows running from south to 

 north; 26 stands, all in Langstroth hives, 

 constitute my apiary this fall. I had as 

 many as 35. I consider bee-keeping my 

 '•hobby," and am prevented by my business 

 from keeping as many stands as I otherwise 

 would. They are attended to only in 

 leisure hours, and my friends here will tes- 

 tify that I have not many leisure hours dur- 

 ing the year. I have, at the same time,eacli 

 one of my hives in as good order as anyone. 

 My average receipts per hive, this last sea- 

 son, was 181 lbs. of choice machine extract- 

 ed honey. Having a surplus set of combs 

 for each hive, my bees build no combs. I 

 have had no natural swarm for the last nine 

 years, and am of the opinion that bee-keep- 

 ing does pay. Chas. F. Muth. 

 Cincinnati, O. 



