. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER Jumiityy ard, but how many in the hivo is the question. The number advocating the 8-franie hive is growing less, and the number using the 10-frame is growing larger and some of those who have been in the liusiness for years say that a 12- or 14-frame hive is none too small. From what I know about the business bi-re. and we going to start a new apiary, I would use a 10-frame ^'Drai)er barn," as I believe it a more suitabU^ hive than a smaller one. I don't expect the bee-keepers will rush into this coun- try very soon, b
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER Jumiityy ard, but how many in the hivo is the question. The number advocating the 8-franie hive is growing less, and the number using the 10-frame is growing larger and some of those who have been in the liusiness for years say that a 12- or 14-frame hive is none too small. From what I know about the business bi-re. and we going to start a new apiary, I would use a 10-frame ^'Drai)er barn," as I believe it a more suitabU^ hive than a smaller one. I don't expect the bee-keepers will rush into this coun- try very soon, but for fear some might pull up stakes and come, regardless of results, I will tell them a few of the drawbacks. The first is the question of health, and I will say that from June 1st to November 1st the country is full of malaria. The only means of getting from place to place is by boat and all supplies must be brought to the apiary through the swamps after being put off the steamboat. Your honey must be gotten from your apiary to wliere the steamboat can get it on board; that means that often you must load your honey on a 'iigliter'" and have it towed through the swamp by a small tug-boat. There are but very few locations wber(! an apiary can be established on the river bank and on ground elevated above over-flow, and if there is such a location the other fellow is ahead of you and got his bees there. In fact, range is almost unlimited, but good dry places to locate an apiary are scarce. A person might build up platforms on which to set his bees, but it has not yet been done that I am aware of. Success and failure are together here as else- where. Men with no experience will buy up two or three hundred colonies of bees and before a year passes there is "but a remnant" left and it is for sale, and the owner swears the business is a fraud. There are some who think the bees need no attention, so give them none, and a failure is the result. Sum- ming it all up I wil
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