210 THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



engine and a combination wood working machine such as are com- 

 monly advertised. 



At the close of each season or when all apiary work is done the 

 best qualified apiarist for the purpose should be put in charge of 

 this work — that of cutting out hives and hive parts and be given a 

 good active cheap helper, and in ample time for the approaching 

 season the needed supplies are cut out and in readiness, and the 

 apiarist is kept at work at a good profit even during the dull season. 



Then too, where a beekeeper only has a small business he can 

 do the work just as it should be done himself or being right along 

 with his help he can see that it is done properly. For in beekeep- 

 ing, if every little thing that might be done, if done at the total ex- 

 pense of hired help, would more than eat up the profits. So only 

 the more necessary things must be done and the more unnecessary 

 things left off. This means much, and the owner must always 

 keep his eye on it. He must focus the whole thing all the time and 

 direct the labor where it will count the most. 



It is not necessary to enumerate the many minor things that 

 are not absolutely necessary to greatly advance the business in all 

 directions for they pop up before every mind that is active in this 

 particular. 



Also the expenditure in honey houses and their equipment 

 must be restricted, especially in sections where the bee pasture is 

 limited and only 60 or 80 colonies can be kept in a single apiary. 

 Such apiaries can best be worked from the more central ones where 

 economical honey houses are erected and where all packing and set- 

 ting up of supplies is done. As apiaries are visited, supplies are 

 carried out and same can be done along as honey is hauled in, and 

 if the bees are not ready for the supers when they are hauled out 

 they can be well stacked to one side and covered up with extra hive 

 covers, which would save any kind of structure for the purpose. 

 A number of apiaries can thus be worked, located in a circuit for 10 

 or 15 miles around. 



One other thing : A large bee business must have one or more 

 regular well equipped queen-rearing yards from which to supply 

 the different branches of it with the needed queens. With a num- 

 ber of queen cell protectors at each yard at times, many can be 

 saved and given to colonies that might need them and a great 

 amount of requeening done in this way along as apiary work is be- 

 ing done, and not greatly interfere with the general work. But a 

 great many queens are needed at different times during the season, 

 and there must be some particular place to raise them, which we 



