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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



things backwards aud forwards. Then there 

 is the preparation of a cellar for wintering 

 the bees, or else they must be carted home 

 in the fall and back in the spring, or pro- 

 tected upon their summer stands. But when 

 a man begins to number his colonies by the 

 hundreds, he knows that so/H<'?/t/«jy must be 

 done. Even if out apiaries are not so profit- 

 able as home apiaries they are not usually 

 run at a loss, while the removal of the sur- 

 plus bees from the home yard, allows that to 

 make good returns. 



When it is finally decided to start an out 

 apiary, how far away shall it be located ? 

 We have been told repeatedly that, ordin- 

 arily, three miles mark the limit of a bee's 

 foraging grounds, hence, if apiaries were 

 placed six miles apart, there would be no 

 encroachment. But it must be remembered 

 the pasture ground of each apiary is circular 

 in form, and that they might be moved to- 

 wards each other to considerable extent 

 without one encroaching upon the other 

 very much. Lay two silver dollars side by 

 side. Lift the edge of one and slide it over 

 the other. Notice how far it may be pushed 

 over without covering a very large portion 

 of the under dollar. Just so in establishing 

 out apiaries ; they may b.e nearer together 

 than one would imagine. We believe that 

 four miles is plenty far enough apart. We 

 cannot always secure the exact spot desired 

 for an apiary, hence we should not hesitate 

 to shorten the distance to three miles, and, 

 unless the apiaries were large, we think (he 

 loss by so doing would not be material. 



Having decided upon a site for an out 

 apiary, the next consideration is its manage- 

 ment, and, to us, this seems the most impor- 

 tant part of all. Shall comb or extracted 

 honey be produced, and shall the bees be 

 managed upon the visiting plan or shall a 

 man be kept there all of the time during 

 swarming ? If extracted honey is produced 

 it seems that the visiting-at-intervals plan 

 might be the most desirable ; but if comb 

 honey is raised we fail to see how constant 

 attendance can be avoided in swarming 

 time, unless queens are removed a la El- 

 wood. 



Of course there are many points that we 

 have not mentioned in connection with the 

 starting and management of out apiaries, 

 and those who have " been through the 

 mill" will please point them out, together 

 ~ith any errors that we have made, and we 



will devote the October Review to a discus- 

 sion of the subject. 



AT THE FAIES, 



August 24 we loaded our apiarian exhibit 

 into a car. A little before nine o'clock in 

 the evening we climbed into the car and 

 went to bed. Soon after nine the through 

 freight " picked us up," and with the rocky 't 

 bump, jouncy motion of a freight car, we 

 were off to the Exposition. From a dearly 

 bought experience, we had learned that the 

 only way to have an exhibition go through 

 safely, was to accompany it and " boss " the 

 handling. At three o'clock in the morning 

 the car stood still some time. Pushing open 

 the door we saw the tower of an interlocking 

 switch system, and knew that Wayne Junc- 

 tion had been reached. Here we waited for 

 hours. Passenger trains passed on the Mich. 

 Central, but not a freight. Visions of being 

 " tied up " in a "strike" dawned unpleas- 

 antly before us. Somewhere between ten 

 and eleven o'clock a freight appeared, our 

 car was added to its length, and by noon we 

 were on the ground shaking hands with the 

 "boys." There was the same old "gang." 

 Hunt and his men, Hershiser, and Cutting. 

 Cutting brought a small portable house to 

 use instead of a tent. We sat around and 

 gossiped until it began to rain, then went to 

 work and put up the house in the rain. At 

 the Exposition is a poor place to rest. All 

 day long immense crowds surge over the 

 grounds and through the buildings. At 

 night the electric lights are turned on and 

 everything made as light as day, and the 

 crowds continue to surge until about eleven 

 o'clock. Then another crowd comes in ; a 

 small army of women with brooms and 

 scrubbing utensils, and the acres and acres 

 of floors are swept and scrubbed. The 

 morning's sunshine sometimes finds these 

 women with their task unfinished, but by 

 eight o'clock, when the first visitors come in, 

 they find every inch of floor and stairway as 

 clean as a kitchen floor. 



One morning, as, in overalls and blouse 

 we were putting the finishing touches upon 

 our show of honey, we heard that rich, mel- 

 low, never-to-be-forgotten voice of Thos. G. 

 Newman, saying, "Hello! W. Z." We 

 found Bro. Newman looking much better 

 than when we last saw him. There was the 

 old-time color in his face and the sparkle in 

 his eye. Next came the dear, kindly face of 

 S. T. Pettit, then the cheerful one of his 



