THE APIARY ITSELF 



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Fig, 16. The California apiary often contains two or three hundred 



colonies without overstocking. The above is reproduction of 



one of M. H. Mendleson's apiaries. 



Watering Places 



Water is necessary for bees, and unless it is liaturally plentiful 

 near the apiary, the bees will find it where they can. Much 

 annoyance will be saved near-neighbors around horse and chicken 

 troughs if the beekeeper will provide in the apiary sufficient to 

 supply the bees and brood during a drought. 



Different devices are used for this, probably the most common 

 being a tub or half-barrel with the water covered with an abund- 

 ance of small sticks or cork chips. If the barrel is placed under 

 the eaves of the honey-house it may be replenished without effort 

 on the part of the apiarist. 



Wax Extractors 



Wax scrapings and bits of comb should be saved, and there 

 is no better way than to have installed in each permanent out- 

 apiary a wax sun extractor which will take care of bits of comb 



