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few years. Yet two of America's pioneer beekeepers were wont 

 to handle their bees in several apiaries and made a success of 

 producing and selling honey. As early as 1869 John Harbison of 

 California was mentioned as having several hundred colonies 

 scattered in different localities, while Adam Grimm, one of Wis- 

 consin's most noted beekeepers, was considered a prominent 

 authority on hauling bees to outapiaries, the overstocking of 

 localities, etc. His writings on these subjects appeared in the 

 American Bee Journal as early as 1874. 



Dependent on the Man 



It will be useless to try to give a definite plan in this book 

 whereby anyone can keep bees either at home or in the outapiary 

 and be uniformly successful. Success will depend chiefly on the 

 man. He must first of all be a successful beekeeper in his home 

 apiary. A beekeeper who cannot make a success of his home yard 

 should not attempt the more difficult outapiary management, 

 for he will surely fail. 



Furthermore, he should have his heart in his work. Nor 

 must he be so wrapt in details that he cannot give up some of 

 these in order to make his plans correspond to the demands of 

 his increased holdings. 



Prime Requisites 



The beekeeper should decide before launching into outapiary 

 work, as to the kind of hive he is to use. It should, as much as 

 possible, be elastic enough to fit in with his system, hearing in 

 mind that non-swarming should be one of the prime requisites; 

 especially is this true with the outapiary, where only occasional 

 visits are made. 



His bees should be of good energetic stock, disease resistant, 

 and as nearly non-swarmers as is possible. Unless he has had 

 experience with other races, he can do no better than to stick 

 to pure Italian stock. 



