50 



DADAXT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING 



shade. But before we had opportunity to cut down any of this 

 shade, (this was in 1903) we harvested one of the largest honey 

 crops that we ever secured. We concluded that it is difficult 

 to place the apiary under too much shade, in this climate. We 

 use roofs, made of coarse lumber, over the colonies, and we believe 

 that it is profitable, both in the economy of wear of the hive 

 lumber and in the shelter it furnishes the bees during the warm 

 season. 



In establishing an apiary, we believe it is necessary to 

 place the colonies in rows. But we do not wish great uni- 

 formity, great enough that the workers and especially the 

 young queens be unable to easily recognize their homes. 



Fig. 32. Another Dadant outyard; the Holland apiary 



With 30 or 40 hives, of similar color and shape, ranged in regular 

 rows, without outsideguide-marks, there is ample occasion for bees 

 to make a mistake, in their first flight, and enter the wrong 

 hive, on their return home. It is of little consequence with the 

 workers, unless too great a number of them should "drift" from 

 the weak colonies to the stronger. This is likely to occur more 



