Or how to Realize the Most Money with the Smallest Expenditure of Capital 
and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 
\ I- MEDINA, O., MAY 1, 1878. No.fr. 
NTARTIXU AX APIAKV. 
No; j£* 
v'lvff ® l0 P e our readers will not object 
to tbc following, simply because 
they l\ave always Imen taught differently, 
for we assure them that all we here recom- 
mend wo have carefully tested. 
The entrances to all the hives:, in " 
our plan oi apiary, should front 
either east Or west, ’ and for several 
reasons we prefer the former: also, as we 
wish to avoid all unnecessary complica- 
tion and simply aim to derive* the “most 
money with least outlay, labor,” etc., we 
will discard numbering, and treat all hives 
precisely alike, and tnakr them all as 
nearly alike as possible. 1 n short, our aim 
should be to make each hive constitute 
such a part of the whole Apiary as each 
individual hoe does part, of the whole col- 
ony of bees. 
Now, Idle true test of skill in an apiarist 
i* the ability fo make an apairv of a con- 
siderable nym her of hives yield an aver- 
age ot a fair amount of honey per colony : 
f he simple fact that one hive gave two or 
even three hundred pounds, proves but lit- 
tle, for many others may have given little 
or none, and the general average may not 
have exceeded 25 lbs. 
As a colony will labor as well on any 
other .set ot combs and brood as their own, 
we will, when we commence extracting, 
remove the entire set of comhs of each 
hive forward to the one next it at each op- 
eration, thus facilitating our work and 
fqnuli/.ing our colonies, at Ihv nmn< linn:. 
Of course to do this nil combs must lit 
perfectly any where: if they do not, they j 
must be made to, (if once, as well as hives, 
covers, and everything else. In transfer- 
ing (and this is the month for it with most 
of our readers.) take, one comb each from 
•several hives for the transferred bees to 
cluster on, ami as soon as a. frame is filled 
with comb give this to a hiyo from which 
one conib was taken, and we have very 
little danger of eoiubs tumbling down, for 
the transferred combs are distributed 
about, ouc in each hive; and the Ira ns- ,* 
fared bce,s have all good combs and at- " 
cordingly are strong, ami an old .colony 
at once. In all operations we are to bear 
in mind as above, that no one colony is 
fo be called upon to furnish bees, brood, 
or combs, alone, but that all, or many, are 
to each bear a share of the work. Sicann- 
iiiif is not to be allowed at all, but if in- 
crease is desired, at least ten colonies are 
to build a comb each : others are to furn- 
ish bees, and still others, a queen. Young 
bees that cannot fly must have employ- 
ment besides caring for thebrood when 
hives are populous, we therefore make it 
a rule that each colony has at least one 
frame unfilled with comb whenever homy 
is being gathered, as well as empty comb 
at all time.’ 4 . 
The great facility offered for moving 
the combs about, in flic hive we have ad- 
vised, is very apt to induce “ putting an 
empty comb between two brood combs, 
being over done, especially quite early in 
the season, and we would caution our 
readers against spreading the cluster of 
heed and brood in this way too far, or 
they may get a severe check in brood- 
rearing from uiiscu&omible weather; but 
judiciotut spreading of the combs may be 
so done as to oblige the queen to fill nearly 
a whole comb entirely with eggs, and jiv 
these eggs hatch nearly at the same time, 
the nursing bees can feed and attend P» 
them systematically, without skipping 
about, as they usually do for brood that 
needs care. Sealing over and hatchinp- 
but also occur on tin* “one job system, 
the cells are ready for eggs once 
more, which can he laid by the queen as 
methodically as we would plant a field of 
corn. When a hive has once got into the 
wav of raising brood in this manner it 
will probably continue thus the whole sea 
son, and the ' golden shower.' of young 
bees that such a “mathematically dis- 
posed queen can send to the fields for 
“ loads, 1 ' are I nily astonishing. 
In our last we omitted to state that, our 
bee home .should bo so arranged that, a 
surplus of sawdust, kept in the loft could 
he at any time pushed over between the 
upright joists to fill up the apace caused 
by the settling w hich occur? a? it dries 
