. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. OUT-APIAEIES. 322 OUT-APIARIES. The two small circles in the northern pai't of the diagram show the spots where we liad apiaries formerly, and which, you will perceive, were further away from home than the jtresent. At that time the Slierwood apiary did not exist, nor did the Grubb apiary; and yet we must say tliat we can see no dif- ference in the yield of the home apiary. We are satisfied that the Grubb bees go east, the Sherwood b
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. OUT-APIAEIES. 322 OUT-APIARIES. The two small circles in the northern pai't of the diagram show the spots where we liad apiaries formerly, and which, you will perceive, were further away from home than the jtresent. At that time the Slierwood apiary did not exist, nor did the Grubb apiary; and yet we must say tliat we can see no dif- ference in the yield of the home apiary. We are satisfied that the Grubb bees go east, the Sherwood bees and the home bees northeast, for their crop. When we say the bees go in a certain direction, we do not mean all the , but the greater part of them. We can give you one convincing instance of the cor- rectness of this opinion. By glancing at the diagram you will notice that the home apiary is just about a mile and a halt from the north point of an island in the river. In certain seasons the islands are covered with water in June; and after the waters recede they become covered with luxuriant vegetation, and tlie yield of honey from them is very large. In one of these seasons we found a colony, belonging to a neighbor, located South. THE DAD ANT SYSTEM OF OUT-APIARIES ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. lialf way between us and the river, harvesting a large yield of honey from this source, while our bees harvested nothing. Is it not evident that our bees had not gone that far? Yet we have seen them two I miles and iuotc from lionie in another direction. Hamilloii, III. C. P. Dadant. In 1890, and also 1897, we visited a number of extensive apiarists in the States of New York and Vermont. Among otliers whom we called upon was Mr. P. II. Elwood, who occupies a territory for his system of out- apiaries not many miles from that formerly occupied by Mr. Quinby. Mr. E. runs about 1000 colonies in a series of eight or j ten out-yards, and they are located in the valleys in the midst of
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