A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to th|e Interests of Hor]eLj Producers. 



$L00 A YEAR. 



W. Z. HDTCHiNSON, Editor and Proprietor. 



VOL, Xi, 



FLINT. MICHIGAN. FEB. 10, 1898. 



NO 2. 



OUT- APIARIES. 



Reasons for their Establishment; Selecting 

 the Locations; Moving the Bees; Build- 

 ings; Summer-Management: 

 Wintering; Etc. 



K. D. OCHSNER. 



Things out of hope are coinpasH'd oft with 

 yeniurin^.SHAKESPEAftE. 



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IN the year 

 i I S S 4, o u r 

 honie-apiarv, sit- 

 uated in the vil- 

 lai^eof I'rairiedu 

 Sac, became too 

 large; and we be- 

 gan looking for 

 some way out of 

 the difficulty. 

 Another induce- 

 ment to move 

 the bees lay in the fact that we had a 

 good neighbor (if you don't care what 

 you say ) who said that the bees spotted 

 their clothes all through the summer; 

 and one day he told father, in my pres- 

 ence, that if we did not move our bees 

 out of town, /le would move them for iis. 

 Father told him to yo ahead and move 



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them if he wished to pa}- damages. From 

 that day on, we heard no more from him; 

 as he learned that father was a member 

 (jf the Union. I would advise every bee- 

 keeper to join the Union, and thus see 

 that we are not trampled upon. It is the 

 only way that we can hold onr rights. 



Finally, we rented half an acre of land 

 seven miles west of the home-apiary, and 

 near a large stream called Honey creek. 

 This was a fine location, being a fertile 

 country westward, but sandy on the east, 

 or we woidd not have gone so far from 

 home. To this location we took about 

 half of our home-apiary. The first sum- 

 mer our out-apiary produced 6,000 pounds 

 of fine. No. i, white honey; mostly bass- 

 wood, but some goldenrod and horse- 

 mint. This we thought was very good 

 for our first year's experience. Next 

 year we enlarged the out-apiary and 

 things went fine. 



Being so well-pleased with two year's 

 experience, we started a second yard, the 

 following spring, four miles below the 

 first one, on the same creek, and five 

 miles from home, at a place called Honey- 

 flats; being mostly marsh and bottom- 

 lands, but not so fertile a country as the 

 first location. This yard we call Indian- 

 mound apiary; and there is where we have 

 a very fine bee-cave, 24 x 8 and 8 feet 



