. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. EEIIFEIS'. I'OL m, FLINT, MICHIGAS, OCTOBER 10, li NO. 10. Out Apiaries.—Localities Differ Greatly.— Apiaries Should be Eeadily Movable.— Raise Extracted Honey. — Trans- portation of Importance ; Use a Bicycle. J. A. GEEEN. JNTIL the season just past, my expe- rience with out apiaries was mostly ^^ of an experimental nature. I had at several times estal)lished small out apiaries. Sometimes I bought bees during the summer and allowed them to remain where they v/ere until fall. Oftener small apiaries were established and maintained at laree proportionate t
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. EEIIFEIS'. I'OL m, FLINT, MICHIGAS, OCTOBER 10, li NO. 10. Out Apiaries.—Localities Differ Greatly.— Apiaries Should be Eeadily Movable.— Raise Extracted Honey. — Trans- portation of Importance ; Use a Bicycle. J. A. GEEEN. JNTIL the season just past, my expe- rience with out apiaries was mostly ^^ of an experimental nature. I had at several times estal)lished small out apiaries. Sometimes I bought bees during the summer and allowed them to remain where they v/ere until fall. Oftener small apiaries were established and maintained at laree proportionate trouble and expense merely to get some light on the vexed ques- tions of overstocking, the profitable limit of bee flight, how near apiaries might be to one another, etc. The past reason I have been through the mill pretty thoroughly. During the summer my bees were in three apiaries of IHO, 120 and 30 colonies, spring count. No. o was run for extracted honey, the others mainly for comb. In the fall they into six apiaries of from 20 to 1!)0 colonies each. One of the points that has been most forcibly brought to my notice is the great difference in locations. Apiary No. 2, six miles from No. 1, and a little over seven from No. ;>, did not do as well at any time during the season and in the fall was doing nothing while the others were gathering considerable honey. I then put out No. 4, six miles on the other side of No. 1, and four and a half from No. 3, where the bees did far better than any of the rest. I think that bee keepers might often dou- ble their crop with comparatively little trouble by putting their bees where the honey is. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, why then Mahomet must go to the mountain. To make money with out apiaries it is not enough to measure oft" the proper distance from the home ai^iary in any direction and plant an apiary there thinking the bees will do just as well as anywhere else. Modern apiculture must do more t
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