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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



If buildings cannot be readily rented a 

 cheap shed will furnish w^at protection from 

 the weather is required. A tent can be used 

 to good advantage while extracting. At one 

 of my apiaries I have a light framework 

 covered with cloth which is easily removed 

 and replaced. I expected to have such a 

 framework at each apiary, using one cloth 

 for all, but would rather have a tent. 



In conclusion I would say that the work 

 and worry of bee keeping are largely in- 

 creased where out apiaries are run, but I 

 believe the profits of the business may be 

 largely increased also, and as I expect to 

 make my living and the best living possible, 

 out of bee keeping, I must bid farewell to 

 the quieter days when all my bees were in 

 one place. 



Dayton, 111., Oct. 11, 1890. 



Kr.lsing Extracted Honey in Out Apiaries.— 

 Preventing Swarming. 



E. F. HOLTEKMAN. 



|HE above subject has been of interest 

 to me ever since I commenced bee 

 keeping, and particularly so during 

 the past summer, as next spring I pro- 

 pose to start an out apiary. It will be a little 

 over three miles from here, a distance which 

 happens to be convenient. I should prefer 

 four miles, but not more. I make a point 

 of "pumping" every bee keeper upon a 

 subject which interests me, just as I did you 

 about the width of sections at the Detroit 

 Exposition, and, at an 'exhibilion we can 

 meet with hundreds of bee keepers, and 

 every year the circle of acquaintance widens. 

 An out apiary should be run for extracted 

 honey because we can by proper manage- 

 ment reduce swarming so that the swarms 

 which may come off will not pay for the 

 extra expense of engaging some one to 

 watch the l)ees. This expense feels very 

 heavy should it prove to be a season poor 

 for honey. The gain derived from the pro- 

 duction of comb honey, in Canada at least, 

 does not cover the expense of hiring a man 

 to watch swarming. A man who will make 

 a success of an apiary is expensive and not 

 easily found, especially the same man year 

 after year, as he will soon start for himself. 

 That we can keep down swarming almost 

 entirely in the production of comb honey 

 few, if any, will claim. There are, however, 

 a few who will claim they can do it with 

 extracted honey. By accident I have for 

 years praciiced the system of tiering up with 

 colonies which did the best for me. I mean 

 my attention would be drawn to a colony 

 doing remarkably well, and them I would 

 give it plenty of room, shade it and ventilate 

 at the top, and by so doing I not only i)re- 

 vented it (jenerally from swarming, but I 

 obtained excellent results. The reason for 

 this I will not here enlarge upon. Never, 

 until this fall, however, did I really become 

 convinced that an out apiary, or any apiary, 

 could be managed without some one to 

 watch for swarms. At the Toronto Exhibi- 

 tion I met C. W. Post, of Murray. I have 

 known him for years, and believe him to be 



a reliable man. He is a specialist with over 

 300 colonies. Mr. Post I find manages with- 

 out the help of anyone but a son. He has 

 swarming so much under control that he 

 cannot afford to have a man in the apiary. 

 He ventilates by means of a hole in the bot- 

 tom board and a corresponding hole in the 

 honey board. He shades and tiers up two 

 and even three supers high, and runs for 

 extracted honey. Mr. Post said nothing 

 about a non-swarming fitrain of bees. An- 

 other system Mr. Post works on, is to have 

 upon a post, to revolve, four arms like a 

 cross. Upon each arm, in the spring, a 

 swarm of bees is set, and each day the cross 

 is given a quarter turn. This gives the old 

 l)ees a new hive each day they fly, and Mr. 

 Post claims prevents swarming if reasonable 

 room is given them. 



RoMNEY, Canada, Oct. 1.5, 181K). 



Establishing Out Apiaries' with Farmers. — 



Giving Them a Share.— Using Large 



Hives and Raising Extracted Honey. 



CHAS. DADANT. ' 



CjMX S soon as a bee keeper thinks that the 

 ^) number of his colonies has become 

 too large for the honey resources of 

 the neighboring fields, if he intends 

 to devote more time to his bee business, it 

 will pay him to establish out apiaries. 



Let me remark here that an out apiary of 

 a few colonies, ten or twenty for instance, 

 would not pay for the trouble of the trips, 

 and that it is therefore better not to liegin 

 with less than forty or fifty colonies. 



The first step to take is to look around for 

 a good locality, at least three miles from 

 other apiaries, to select a farm offering a 

 good and well situated spot not far from 

 the house, and, as much as possible, not 

 sloping towards the north. The farm ought 

 to be occupied by its owner and not by a 

 renter, to avoid the risk of being compelled 

 to move the bees every year. The farm 

 ought to have, at the disposal of the bee 

 keeper, a well closed room to store the tools, 

 the surplus boxes, the combs, sections, etc. 



As we think that it is to our advantage to 

 interest the farmer in our success, we give 

 him the fifth of the honey crop gathered in 

 the apiary : for that purpose the room where 

 the extracting is done has two barrels, one 

 for our crop, the other to receive the share 

 of the farmer. ( )ur workman marks a line 

 with chalk on our barrels at every pail emp- 

 tied in it and cross with a horizontal line the 

 f)ur lines when he empties the fifth in the 

 barrel of the farm er. 



We give also to the owner of the land sev- 

 enty-five cents for every natural swarm 

 hived. All thei^e allowances are not clear 

 profit to him, for, during our visits, we have 

 our place at the table, and our horses are fed 

 in his stable. 



On such terms we find as many farmers 

 ready to receive our bees as we need, and 

 our visits are always welcomed by smiling 

 faces, especially when w( are able to place 

 some new comb honey on the table. 



