. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. INSIDE CORNER OF .STRITTMATTER'S HOUSE APIARY SHOWING HIVE ARRANGEMENT tion finds it necessary to buy quantities of western honey to supplement its own crop. Atlantic, Iowa. House Apiaries BY F. J. STRITTMATTER. A NUMBER of enquiries having been sent concerning the Strittmatter house apiaries, described with cuts in the November number, Mr. Strittmatter replies as follows: We have had a number of enquiries as to the details of construction of our house apiaries, and find it impossible to give full answers for lack of time, as we are very busy with our
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. INSIDE CORNER OF .STRITTMATTER'S HOUSE APIARY SHOWING HIVE ARRANGEMENT tion finds it necessary to buy quantities of western honey to supplement its own crop. Atlantic, Iowa. House Apiaries BY F. J. STRITTMATTER. A NUMBER of enquiries having been sent concerning the Strittmatter house apiaries, described with cuts in the November number, Mr. Strittmatter replies as follows: We have had a number of enquiries as to the details of construction of our house apiaries, and find it impossible to give full answers for lack of time, as we are very busy with our honey marketing in winter and with the bees in summer. However, this will cover about all the questions sent in to date. In regard to swarming, we run our bees at our out-apiaries for extracted honey, and have no swarming unless. ART OK THOSE IN AiTENDANCK AT AT THE UNIVERSI THE SHORT COURSE IN BEEKEEPING rV OK MINNESOTA we neglect to give plenty of room. At the home apiary we run a part of the colonies for comb honey, and have an occasional swarm, but so far have not had as many swarms in the house api- ary as we had outside. We hive the swarms either by the returning plan, by exchanging the frames while the swarm is out, or hive it in a single- walled hive, and as soon as the bees are in the hive place it over the hive in the building where we wish to have it stay, and later exchange the frames, putting the swarm down, or it may go down itself. We have not had over 10 percent of the comb-honey colonies swarm from the house apiary. We certainly like the house apiaries better every year, either for comb or ex- tracted honey. We have not had much trouble with young queens entering wrong hives, but we usually try to have queens mated in corner hives. The most we have in one row is 15 hives, on the long side of our home apiary, and with four colors of paint the bees have no more trouble getting to the right place than by the usual method outside. We leave the packing around the h
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