KOTXMBEB, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



685 



Fig. 2. — This apiary, belonging to Mr. Pritchard, is located at the bottom of a hill which forms a semi- 

 circle protecting the bees against the west, north, and east, leaving only a southeastern exposure. The 

 thick growth of young trees on the top of the hill, together with the larger trees in the apiary inclosure, 

 would make it impossible for any eddying currents to sweep down the hill and on the hives. The arrange- 

 ment as a natural windbreak -is ideal. 



trees in the background and down among 

 the hives help to break the violence of the 

 wind. I should unhesitatingly put such a 

 location as ideal. 



A good winter location is a cleared spot 

 near the south edge of young timber over 

 which the bees can fly in going to the fields. 

 When the woods are made up of old forest 

 trees it is too much of a good thing because 

 the bees have to fly too high to get out. 

 ■ Sometimes a spot can be found on level 

 ground where there is a dense growth of 

 young trees on the northwest, and an ex- 

 posure on the south and east. See cover 



picture, this issue. This is all right provided 

 there is no windsweep from the south. 



It often happens that no location can be 

 found that provides any natural windbreaks. 

 The only thing that can be made available 

 at once is a high board fence. Experience 

 in our case shows that it may be desirable 

 to move the apiary on account of a failure 

 of honey sources. For example, several 

 farmers in the locality may suddenly take 

 a notion to stop growing alsike and put in 

 some other crop to give the soil a rest. On 

 account of such contingencies our fences 

 are made up of panels, each panel being 



Fig. 3. — ^This is an artificial windbreak surrounding a Root apiary in a small orchard. But as there is a 



clear windsweep on level ground for over a mile in all directions this fence was put up. The location is 



desirable because it is in the center of an alsike-clover district. 



