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Otn'APIAKIES 



Probably a large proportion of beginners will do well to es- 

 tablish outyards with some provision for extracting there until 

 the central system can be applied directly to their needs through 

 experience. It would be difficult in most instances to get a large 

 beekeeper who has used the central plant to go back to the older 

 method. 



Keeping Records 



Probably in no branch of beekeeping do we find such a diver- 

 sity in mejhod as in the keeping of records of individual colonies. 

 Likely the most minute and most efficient system would be a 

 card index with a card for each colony, properly subdivided 

 to record each operation. Close records may also be 

 kept by record books. Systems of colored pegs, signs, discs, 

 etc., placed on the hives or beside them are also used with success. 





Fig. 19. Rough records on the back of hive caps are used by many large 



producers. 



