50 A YEAR'S WORK IN AN OUT-APIARY 



hives. I do not usually go till afternoon, as by noon it can generally 

 be told what the rest of the day will bring forth. 



In taking oft the supers, those that have no honey in them are 

 piled up top of each other till they are six to ten high, when a cover 

 is put on each pile, and a 25-lb. stone on the cover, where they are left 

 until wanted for use the next year. As many Of those having honey 



In them as I can carry are packed into the auto or wagon, in accord 

 with which I have with me; and if there is more than I can carry they 

 are piled up, as were the empty supers, seeing that each pile is bee- 

 proof, to wait till I can draw them home. The tiered-up hives are now 

 piled away (using the wheelbarrow as much as possible in all this 

 work), the same as were the supers, those being heavy with honey 

 being piled by themselves, and the light ones in a separate place. 

 These are our reserve combs for next year. 



"sweetening" up the neighbors. 



I now take oft the escape-boards, put the covers on the hives, and 

 store away the escapes for the next year. Some are deterred from 

 starting out-apiaries by what they consider necessary — an outlay for 

 buildings to store things in; for should they continue only a year or 

 two at any place with an out-yard, such buildings would be almost an 

 entire loss. But I do not find it necessary to have any thing more at 

 the out-apiary than a few extra hives and covers, and often all but 

 two or three of these get into the bees' possession before the season's 

 work Is ended. Smoker fuel, smoker, bee-veil, tools, etc., are stored in 

 these hives; and with the finish up in the fall all are piled away as I 

 have given, where they stand right in the bee-yard all the fall, winter, 

 and spring, till they are needed again, the hives and supers giving all 

 the protection that I find necessary in this locality, and all that is 

 needed in any locality, in my opinion, unless it should be the "wild and 



