PREFACE 



Increased demand for honey, better means of transport to 

 outyards, and consequent increased interest in beekeeping as a 

 pursuit have changed many smaller beekeepers into outapiarists. 

 This volume, I hope, may, in some degree, aid the beginning 

 outapiarist in planning and managing his system of apiaries. 



The marketing of honey, though it is connected closely with 

 the outapiarist, is not treated in this book. It is a subject, how- 

 ever, which has not had its share of attention from the beekeeper. 

 Were better methods of distribution striven for as are methods 

 of production, the demand for our product would be almost un- 

 limited. 



The writer is specially indebted to his father, brothers, and 

 to Mr. Frank C. Pellett for ideas and information embodied with 

 his own in this book. The cuts have, nearly all of them, appeared 

 in the American Bee Journal for which they were made by Mr. 

 Pellett. 



