This is perhaps a misfortune to the industry as a whole, for with fewer apiaries of larger size under the management of careful, trained bee keepers the honev production of the country would be marvelously increased.
As a matter of fact, few apiaries are perfectly located; nevertheless, the location should be carefully planned, especially when a large number of colonies are kept primarily for profit.
As a rule, it is not considered best to keep more than 100 colonies in one apiary, and apiaries should be at least 2 miles apart.
A man who desires to make honey production his business may find that it does not pay to increase the apiaries in his present location.
The experience of a relatively small number of good bee keepers in keeping unusually large apiaries indicates that the capabilities of the average locality are usually underestimated.
In large apiaries special boxes to receive cappings, capping melters to render the cappings directly into wax, and power-driven extractors are often used.
The determination of the size of extensive apiaries is worthy of considerable study, for it is obviously desirable to keep bees in as few places as possible, to save time in going to them and also expense in duplicated apparatus.
Various States have passed laws providing for the State or county inspection of apiaries for bee-disease control, and every bee keeper should get in touch with an inspector when disease is suspected, if one is provided.
Such work should be undertaken in experimental apiaries where its continuance when a single point has been gained will not be affected by the changes of individual fortunes.
This hive is used with great success by certain American bee keepers of long experience and whose apiaries are among the largest in the world.
Where these laws have been conscientiously and energetically executed, much has been accomplished toward freeing the apiaries of the given State from disease.
We must expect some such occurrences, and in largeapiaries there is apt to be trouble, unless you take some precautions.
But latterly I have had severalapiaries away from home, and now manage without difficulty.
I have had for several years, threeapiaries about two miles apart, averaging in spring a little more than fifty in each.
But in large apiaries it is common for them to issue without any previous warning, just when a first one is leaving, and crowd themselves into their company, and seeming to be as much at home as though they were equally respectable.
To make the story complete I think I should add that the writer of this article is at present engaged as assistant in apiculture, doing experimental work in apiculture in the government apiaries at Washington, D.
Gates, State Inspector of Apiariesin Massachusetts, and Prof.
He is required to inspect apiarieswhere diseases are suspected, and the best thing to do is to interest him in your work and get all the help from him you can.
Take some refuse honey and your bottle of bait, get far out on the mountains, so there will be little danger of drawing bees from apiaries that may be situated in the valleys.
I have thus briefly quoted from famous authorities, to impress upon those who keep apiaries the importance of transporting their bees from pasture to pasture.
This is probably the maximum, and the hives were necessarily located in separate apiaries some few miles apart in order to avoid the evils of overstocking, but all in the midst of thousands of acres of honey-yielding flowers.
American bee-breeders are conspicuous in this respect, extensive apiaries being exclusively devoted to the business of rearing queens by the thousand for sale and export.
On the European continent queen-rearing apiaries are plentiful, but less attention is paid there to hybridizing than to keeping the respective races pure.
They visited and personally examined the Apiaries of Mr. Dzierzon.
Enclosed Apiaries are at best but nuisances: they soon become lurking-places for spiders and moths; and after all the expense wasted on their construction, afford, but little protection against extreme cold.
The Shakers at Lebanon, have about 600 colonies; but I doubt whether a dozen Apiaries equally large can be found in the Union.
In large Apiaries managed on the swarming plan, where a number of swarms come out on the same day, and there is constant danger of their mixing,[16] the speedy hiving of swarms is an object of great importance.
But the question would still recur, do not these Apiaries occupy comparatively isolated positions?
Those engaged in bee-culture on a large scale, will do well to enclose their Apiaries with a strong fence, so as to prevent cattle from molesting the hives.
In Egypt it is the practice to transport the apiaries to distant places, in order to take advantage of the succession of flowers.
If so, how do the bees find their way to and from the floating apiaries on the rivers, through various parts of the European continent, and also in Egypt, the resting-place being continually changed according to the judgment of their owners?
They were also at work on fifty concrete apiaries for the protection of the bees.
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