48 OUTAPIARIES 



Shifting Apiaries and the Portable System 



In many regions it, is inadvisable to establish on so permanent 

 a basis, and the beekeepers place their outyards without any pro- 

 vision for housing equipment except temporary shelter for supers,etc. 

 Extracting, in these instances, is done in a tent, in a light, quickly 

 erected and quickly transported house of screen or of muslin, or 

 in a portable house on wheels. This plan is practiced in all parts 

 of the country, but lends itself to existing conditions best in Cali- 

 fornia and other extreme western locations, where migratory bee- 

 keeping is popular. 



Migratory Beekeeping 



The older reader, when migratory beekeeping is mentioned, 

 will recall more especially the experiences of C. 0. Perrine and 

 others in attempting to practice migratory beekeeping between 

 the North and the South, a long haul, fraught with large chances 

 of failure, and usually proven so unsuccessful as to leave no doubt 

 as to the inefficiency of the idea. 



But the advent of the automobile and truck has made a uni- 

 form success of migratory beekeeping on a short haul, say of 100 

 miles or less. Many central western beekeepers now haul their 

 bees from the clover fields to the river bottoms in fall to catch 

 the honey from heartease and Spanish needle. In California 

 it allows opportunity to go to the orange groves, thence to the 

 bean fields, to the sage and alfalfa, or to anj' other crop in reach 

 of the beekeeper. 



Some beekeepers, in fact, have had success in carload ship- 

 ments from California to Nevada and Utah and back, and recent 

 successes were reported of shipments to Utah and Wyoming by 

 Texas beekeepers during their seasons of drouth and dearth in 

 1916 and 1917. 



Migratory beekeeping on hauls of 100 miles or less may be 

 considered a success, but long trans-continental hauls will need 



