TUG API ART. 291 



CHAPTER X. 



The Apiary. 



Location. 



564. Any one can keep bees, successfully, if he has a 

 liking for this pursuit and is not too timid to follow the 

 direstions given in this treatise. Even ladies can manage 

 a large Apiary successfully, with but little help. 



Almost any locality will yield a surplus of honey in aver- 

 age seasons. Mr. Chas. F. Muth of Cincinnati, with 22 

 colonies of bees, on the roof of his house, in the heart of 

 this large city, harvested a surplus honey yield of 198 lbs. 

 per colony in one season. 



Mr. Muth informed us that this surplus was collected from 

 white clover blossoms in 26 days. 



565. But an intimate acquaintance with the honey 

 resources of the country is highly important to those desirous 

 of engaging largely in bee-culture. While, in some localities, 

 bees will accumulate large stores, in others, only a mile or 

 two distant, they may yield but a small profit. 



" While Huber resided at Cour, and afterwards at Vevey, his 

 bees suffered so much from scanty pasturage, that he could only 

 preserve them by feeding, although stocks that were but two 

 miles from him were, in each case, storing their hives abund- 

 antly." — Bevan. 



Those desirous of becoming specialists will find the subject 

 of location and yield further treated in the chapter on 

 Pasturage and Overstocldng (698). 



566. Inexperienced persons will seldom find it profitable 

 to begin bee-keeping on a large scale. By using movable- 



