MAY 1. 1916 



371 



When I have accomplished the results as 

 ontlined, it is necessary to make only one 

 visit every ten days to my outyards, and all 

 I do at such time until the flow is on is to 

 shift the hrood-nest, which is at the bottom, 

 to the top, and vice versa. As soon as the 

 flow is well started I put my queen-exclud- 

 ers on the colonies running for extracted 

 honey, the same being placed between the 

 two brood-nests, making sure that the queen 

 is below. T also change the brood-nests, 

 putting all brood about to hatch into the 

 lower hives, so as to give the queen room 

 to lay more, in this way keei:)ing the colony 

 in shape for the sweet-clover flow. 



I put all my first supers for comb honey 



with tojD and bottom starters between the 

 two brood-nesls of the same colony — -this 

 with the intention of keeping on for foi'ty- 

 eight hours. In this way my sections are 

 started nicely, and they are not discolored. 

 At the end of the time slated I remove the 

 upper brood-nest with brood; also two 

 frames from below. I also add my second 

 comb-honey supers at this time, for the 

 reason that my colonies are invariably 

 strong enough for this to be done. I now 

 make only one visit during the week to my 

 outyards, and this for the purpose of put- 

 ting on supers and shipping honey until the 

 close of the season. 

 Western Springs, 111. 



AN AUTO TRAILER FOR THE OUT-APIARY 



BY J. P. MOORE 



Unlike most out-apiaries, mine answers 

 three purposes. First, I form about 200 

 nuclei from it; second, it takes care of my 

 ncAv swarms at home, and prevents my 

 hom.e j^ard from being overstocked; third, 

 it produces a good supply of honey each 

 year. For many years I have dreaded the 

 long nine-mile trip to this out-apiary, not 

 only for the ride in a heavy farm wagon, 

 l)ut the danger which I underwent with 

 two powerful horses which I drove ; for had 

 a bee stung either, I should have been 

 kicked to death or dragged by this high- 

 spirited team if I had been caught un- 

 awares. No horse, no matter how gentle, 

 likes to have bees alight on his back and 

 sink their sting into him. -From four to six 

 of these trips had to be made each year for 

 forming nuclei, and two for bringing home 

 the honey, and each trip was like a beating 

 for me. 



In 1914 I purchased a Hupmobile tour- 

 ing-car, and, with the aid of the running- 

 gear of an old carriage, I fashioned an 

 auto-trailer, the sides and bottom of which 

 were slatted to allow the circulation of 



plenty of air. An iron Y brace was then 

 put in place of the shafts, which in turn 

 was clamped to the axle of the machine, and 

 I was then ready for my experiment. My 

 son-in-law and assistant, Mr. J. E. Jordan, 

 acted as brakeman on the trailer to save 

 the brakes on the machine in descending 

 long gi-ades. One blast from the auto horn 

 was the signal to apply brakes, and two to 

 release them. The result was, we were able 

 to drive down between the rows of hives 

 without the slightest fear from stings to our 

 steel horse, and the trip was made in less 

 than half the time than with the team. 



Our trip is now a pleasure, and very few 

 hills are so steep that I have to resort to 

 low, even with 48 nuclei in the trailer. 

 Bees stand the trip better, and I have ex- 

 perienced no broken-down combs. The 

 automobile has now really replaced the 

 horse in my business. Mr. Jordan some- 

 times makes the trip up to introduce queens 

 on his Indian motor cycle which has a side 

 ear attached. The side car, being pretty 

 large, will accommodate all kinds of sup- 

 plies and tools. 



Morgan, Ky. 



VISITING AN OUT-APIARY ONLY FOUR TIMES A YEAR 



BY S. G. CROCKER, JR. 



_ One year I ran an outyard with but four 

 visits, and did not have a swarm. The first 

 and greatest swarm preventive is young 

 queens, so all my hives were requeened late 

 in the fall. Another great help is drawn 

 combs, of which I had a good supply the 

 year referred to. 



I am not going to give a set rule by 

 which we can have an outyard run on four 



visits with no swarming. In the first place, 

 the kind of season, the weather, the honey- 

 flow, and the breeding of queens from non- 

 swarming colonies, control swarming to a 

 great extent. If we have a rainy spell at 

 the beginning of the honey-flow when the 

 sun does come out I have noticed swarming 

 will invariably follow. 



I think we all agree that the greatest 



