CHAPTER VIII. 
THE APIARY: ITS ESTABLISHMENT AND GENERAL 
MANAGEMENT. 
Selecting a Locality — Pasturage, and Desirable Condi- 
tions — Operating-house : How to Clear of Bees — 
Separate Stands — House Apiary — Purchasing Stocks 
— Condemned Bees — Bumping — Capturing Stray 
Colonies — Bee-hunting — Foods and Feeding — Syrup 
and Syrup-feeders — Crystallisation of Food in 
Comb — Dry Sugar Feeding — Candy Flour Cake — 
Artificial Pollen — Milk and Egg Feeding — Water — 
Packing Bees for Long Journeys — Spring Stimulation 
— Spreading the Brood — Autumn Feeding — Robbing: 
How to Stop — Bee-tent — Moving Stocks — Uniting — 
Displacing Queens — Register of Operations. 
But little will be said in reference to the locality of 
the apiary, since the amateur determines this point by 
that of his own dwelling, while he who makes bee- 
keeping his profession will hardly need advice in 
making a choice which, after all, must not be absolutely 
settled by productiveness in honey ; climate, surround- 
ings, communication by railroad or otherwise, nearness 
to a possible market, and many other matters requiring 
consideration. 
