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are a mile too close, at least, Brother H., 

 your illustrations with the dollars notwith- 

 standing. This is a fine illustration and a 

 splendid thought and one for which I am 

 indebted to Dr. C. C. Miller, who gave it to 

 me some eight or ten years ago, I think, 

 when visiting at my home. 



It would make this article too long to dis- 

 cuss the question of whether it is better to 

 keep a man in each out-apiary or to leave 

 them alone, and go around, taking away 

 honey at intervals. Considerable depends 

 upon location and permanent conditions, as 

 well as much depending upon temporary 

 conditions such as season, but of course frhis 

 latter cannot be calculated in advance. Do 

 not talk about removing queens. That will 

 not do in these times of cheap honey. 



As I have already written, I can with my 

 divisible brood chamber hive almost wholly 

 prevent swarming. Yes, any desire or at- 

 tempt on the part of the bees to increase, 

 and do it quickly without any fussing or 

 manipulating which consumes time, and 

 with this in view, it is probably best in most 

 cases to lock up the out apiaries. 



But to close I would say to my brother bee 

 keepers, do not start an out apiary until you 

 have a large number of colonies in the same 

 yard, and are pretty well, convinced that you 

 are overstocked. 



Before closing allow me to thank you for 

 calling attention to the fact of Brother A. I. 

 Root's opposing my improvements in hives, 

 and at the same time following along several 

 years behind in the adoption of these im- 

 provements. 



DowAGiAO, Mich., Oct. 2, 1S90. 



Preventing Swarming at Out Apiaries. 



ARTHUB C. MILLEB. 



(jo begin with, I am not "up " on "out 

 apiaries," but I have a plan and way 

 of my own that works excellently and 

 will enable one to run an out apiary 

 for either comb or extracted honey without 

 constant attendance. 



Necessity was the mother of this plan. 

 I fathered it, and briefly it is as follows : 

 When my stocks approach the swarming 

 period I take an extra brood chamber for 

 each hive and place in each two division 

 boards and three L. frames with starters 

 only. The stock is removed from its stand, 

 the chamber, as above, is put in its place, 

 the queen of the stock is hunted up and with 

 the bees from the frame she is on, is shaken 

 or placed on the frames with starters. The 

 division boards are then pushed up on each 

 side, a queen excluding honey board put on, 

 then the supers and then the original brood 

 nest on top of all. So arranged they will go 

 it for ten days to two weeks, after which 

 time the queen naay need another frame 

 with starter. At same time queen cells in 

 the upper brood nest may be removed and 

 also any combs free from brood, or the 

 whole chamber may be taken off and brood 

 used as desired. 



Do not say I cannot raise good coml) honey 

 that way, or much of it, for I have this year 



secured an unusually good crop and of such 

 quality that it took first premium at our 

 State Fair over many competitors. 



Now, brother bee keepers, part of this may 

 be a very ancient "chestnut" to you, but 

 there was a nice fat worm in it, and I have 

 found him and set him to work for me, and 

 the foregoing is only a part of what he can 

 do. 



Fbovidence, R. I., Oct. 10, 1890. 



Put Out Apiaries Four Miles Apart.— Use 



Heddon Hives and Raise 



Extracted Honey. 



■^N our experience with out apiaries we 

 d|) find that the profitable management of 

 a^ them depends upon many considera- 

 tions. 



Let us consider first who should establish 

 out apiaries. A great majority of bee keep- 

 ers are honey producers merely as an adjunct 

 to some other pursuit. If they are at any 

 time inclined to establish an out apiary the 

 cost of an extra man to conduct it, and the 

 scarcity of men of experience in that line, 

 often deters the farmer, physician or trades- 

 man from embarking in the enterprise. 



But the person who makes a specialty of 

 bee keeping is the one who turns his eyes to 

 surrounding vacant fields, in order to occupy 

 them. The first thing to be considered in 

 this case is the pasturage. We find that the 

 capacity of a field ranges all the way from 

 twenty colonies to one hundred, or in highly 

 favored localities two hundred or over. The 

 bee keeper, then, should decide how many 

 colonies he can profitably manage, and es- 

 tablish as many out apiaries as will take up 

 the number of bees. 



If one field would sustain only twenty 

 colonies, we doubt if it would be profitable 

 to establish so many small apiaries as would 

 be necessary to manage two or three hun- 

 dred colonies. We would either give up the 

 scheme or move to a better field. 



Having decided upon our location the next 

 point is, what kind of honey shall be pro- 

 duced ? Comb honey producers who have 

 many out apiaries usually hire a man to 

 attend each apiary during the honey season. 

 The swarming impulse is so uncontrollable 

 in a comb honey apiary that a constant su- 

 pervision is necessary, and to sustain this 

 extra expense the honey yield should be 

 quite sure each year, and the field able to 

 sustain at least seventy-five colonies in an 



An out apiary can be conducted much 

 cheaper when obtaining extracted honey. 

 The hiring of an extra man in each apiary is 

 dispensed with, and the apiarist with a 

 " crew " of helpers gets around and relieves 

 the bees of their impulse to swarm, and puts 

 that impulse into kegs or barrels, and that 

 is the end of it. 



Another very important consideration is 

 the kind of hive to use. If the hive is to be 

 a permanent fixture in the out apiary almost 

 any style of standard chaff hive can be used. 

 But the very name out apiary suggests more 

 or less moving of hives from the home head- 

 quarters, and in order to make these move- 



