AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



831 



jBest gallon extracted Fall honey — 



The above is limited to competitors 

 producing their own honey in Nebraska 

 during the year 1891. 



Best 20 pounds granulated honey — 

 $5, $3. 



Best and largest display of any one, 

 including bees, extracted and comb-honey 

 and apiarian supplies — $15, 810. 



Best exhibit of brood-chamber and 

 surplus comb-foundation, full to partly 

 drawn — $10, $5. 



Best exhibit of apiarian supplies and 

 implements — $15, $10. 



Best display of honey in marketable 

 shape— $10, $5. 



Best display of honey candy, honey 

 sugar and sweets by any one, in which 

 honey is made to fill the place of sugar 

 — $5, $3. 



Best honey vinegar, not less than one- 

 half gallon— $3, $2. 



Best display of bees and queens in 

 observatory hives, and not allowed to 

 fly— $10, $5. 



Best exhibition of extracted-honey, to 

 be exhibited on the grounds under the 

 direction of the Superintendent, not 

 later than Thursday of the fair — $10, 

 $5. 



Best honey extractor, test to be made 

 by actual extracting upon the grounds — 

 $5, $3. 



Best all-purpose single-walled hive — 

 $2, $1. 



Best all-purpose chaff hive — $2, $1. 



Best bee smoker — $ 1 , 50 cents. 



The following is confined to exhibitors 

 in Nebraska alone : 



Best display of apiarian implements 

 and supplies, including comb-foundation, 

 same full to partly drawn, and queens 

 and bees in cages — $10, $5. 



Best report of surplus honey stored 

 by any colony of bees during the year 

 1891, the amount of stores, manner of 

 building up, handling, kind of hive 

 used, and kind and quality stored, to be 

 verified by owner, entries to conform 

 with other entries of this class, and 

 report, with verification, to be filled with 

 Superintendent not later than noon on 

 Thursday of the fair— $15, $10, $5. 



Discretionary. — This lot is intended 

 for any and all articles whi(;h may have 

 been omitted in any of the foregoing lots 

 in this class, and might properly have 

 been included therein. 



Frien4, Nebr. 



Manapment of Ont-Apiaries, 



MRS. L. C. AXTELL. 



I do not think it advisable to start an 

 out-apiary unless the apiarist has 

 strength and time to have personal 

 supervision over it, as it seems so 

 difficult to hire permanent help willing 

 and competent to care for bees. As 

 soon as they get a liking for the business 

 they want to go into it themselves, and 

 we cannot blame them for that, and if 

 they do not like it, they do not take 

 enough interest in it to do the work 

 right. 



I would sooner leave the bees to care 

 for themselves than to send one who 

 knows little or nothing of bees to care 

 for them, or what is worse, one who 

 thinks he knows it all and really knows 

 nothing as he ought ; or thinks he knows 

 so much that he is not willing to follow 

 our directions. 



Some people can push wprk, and can 

 make it pay to run several or many 

 hands, while others cannot. The 

 apiarist should study his own ability in 

 that respect. If I did not wish to keep 

 more than 100 colonies, or about that 

 number, I would prefer keeping tl\em all 

 at home, wintering back and selling off 

 so as not to have more than the 100 

 colonies at the beginning of the honey 

 harvest each year. 



We have never seen a yejlr since we 

 began keeping bees, 20 years ago, but 

 that we got more honey per colony than 

 any of our box-hive neighbors who kept 

 from one to 10 colonies, while we had 

 from 100 to 300 colonies in apiaries, 

 so that in good years there must be an 

 immense amount of honey secreted. 

 But in quite poor years I do not think 

 they do get quite so much per colony as 

 if there were less in our apiary, though 

 of that I am not quite certain. 



We prefer to have our bees at our 

 out-apiary in chaflf-packed hives, pro- 

 tected by a high board fence on three 

 sides, and leave them at the out-apiary 

 all Winter, rather than to bring them 

 home, for several reasons. We think it 

 less work ; it relieves us of the danger 

 of moving bees, and we have as many at 

 home as we care to put into our cellar. 



Our bees away from home make us 

 much more work per colony than those 

 at home ; one can hardly realize how 

 much more until they try it. 



Our out-apiary in -ix miles away from 

 home, making 51 miles- per week travel 

 back and forth. Counting the timo it 

 takes to gather up the things ready to 



