APIARfY 
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APIARY OF THE A. I. ROOT CO., ON THE APALACHICOLA RIVER, FLORIDA, IN 1914. 
This shows a general view of 300 colonies placed on raised platforms or scaffolding five or six feet 
high, or above high-water mark. While these platforms are somewhat expensive, they are very convenient 
in affording easy access to all colonies. There is no uneven ground, no shrubbery nor weeds to interfere 
with the flight of bees, and a wheelbarrow has good wheeling to every hive. It would have been better 
if the hives had been arranged in groups of twos, threes, and fours, as explained under the engraving and 
apiary of L. F. Howden. 
to be very hardy and thrifty, and are now 
large trees. 
A good windbreak is now regarded, for 
winter protection, as about as important 
(and some think more important) for out- 
door-wintered bees, as packing and double- 
walled hives. Of course, it is better still 
to have hives packed as well as protected 
from the prevailing winds. Experience has 
shown that colonies, even tho well packed, 
but placed where there are sharp wind 
exposures on an elevation, will often die 
before spring, or become so weakened as to 
be practically worthless, when colonies of 
the same strength in single-walled hives 
screened against the wind will winter com¬ 
paratively well. 
In a location on a prairie, especially if 
it is permanent thruout the year, care 
should be taken to see that the apiary is 
protected on the north and west. Some¬ 
times an apiary can be placed at the bot¬ 
tom of a hill lying at the north; but it 
would be far better if shrubbery were 
placed at the brow of the hill to prevent 
the wind from diving down and striking 
the colonies with full force. 
The best windbreak we have found con¬ 
sists of trees or shrubbery of some sort. 
A solid fence is not so effective, because 
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Shading tops and fronts of hives during the hottest 
part of the day. 
the wind will strike it squarely and glance 
upward, when the on-rushing blast will 
cause it to roll and dive downward. 
At one of our outyards we had a high 
board fence on the north, and it was dis- 
