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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR. 

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VOL. XVIII. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JUNE 15, 1905. NO. 6. 



?piini^ Bees lim ILari 



BY J. F. M'lNTYRE. 



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¥HEN a bee-keeper's family, or his 

 ambition, g"ets too larg'e for one 

 apiary to support, the question that 

 troubles him most is whether he shall 

 establish out-apiaries, or eng^age in 

 some other business which he can take 

 care of at home. The number of col- 

 onies that can be kept in the home- 

 apiary depends entirely upon the loca- 

 tion, and is one of the most difficult 

 thing's to determine. In g'ood years 

 you will think that a much larg-er num- 

 ber would have done just as well as 

 the number you have; but in poor j'ears 

 all the honey in the location will be 

 used up in brood rearing", and you 

 will wish the bees had been scattered 

 in out-apiaries. 



When the Sespe apiary reached 600 

 colonies, I started an out-apiary, and 

 have had one or two out-apiaries most 

 of the time since; and it is my opinion 



that a man cannot run out-apiaries and 

 be as happy as he was when one 

 apiary, one wife, and two or three 

 babies, were all he had. 



I have tried renting locations, but do 

 not like it, and now own the land on 

 which my three apiaries are located; 

 400 colonies in the home-apiary in 

 Sespe canon; 200 colonies in Piru 

 canon; and 200 colonies in Holser 

 canon, four miles from Piru. The two 

 out-apiaries are 14 and 16 miles from 

 Sespe apiary, and the Sespe apiary is 

 26 miles from our home in Ventura; 

 making 42 miles, in about a straight 

 line, from home to the farthest apiarj\ 



HORSKS THE MOST SATISFACTORY 

 METHOD OF TRAVEL TO OUT- 

 APIARIES. 



I have tried every method of travel, 

 except a flying machine. The bicycle 



