It is of great importance that the apiary should be situated in the neighbourhood of good feeding grounds, such as gardens, clover-fields, or heath-covered hills.
The apiary should be well sheltered from strong winds, moisture, and the extremes of heat and cold.
Experience has shown that where bees are very extensively kept, the apiaryis best divided on the same premises, so as not to have the whole crowded together; often inconvenient, particularly in the season of swarming.
The question has often been put to me, "How and at what time can an apiary be best commenced?
Dunbar, "there is no more useful auxiliary in every operation in an apiary than smoke.
The best time," says Payne, "to establish an apiary is from the middle of February to the middle of March.
It will follow as a matter of course from what we have said, that the size of an apiary in any district must be mainly determined by circumstances.
Prudence will at this time point out the expediency of surveying the state of the apiary as to repairs, painting, &c.
The case, however, is altered when a well-stocked apiary is aimed at, requiring a more complete provision for permanent safety.
In theapiary of a friend I have seen a dome-formed straw cover to a stock-hive, constructed with a projection all round of about three inches.
Eau de Luce as it is commonly called, that is, strong ammonia, is another excellent remedy; a small bottle should be kept in every apiary in the box of "needments.
I know no sight more piteous than an apiarythe night after it has been plundered.
Years upon years of life in the apiary seem to have no appreciable effect towards their final, permanent domestication.
How the bees love it, and they bring the delicious odor of the blooming plant to the hive with them, so that in the moist warm twilight the apiary is redolent with the perfume of buckwheat.
Illustration: The Apiary of La Trappe] Within the walls of the little garden is a fine statue of the Virgin in white marble, given in 1847 by Madame Adelaide, the sister of Louis-Philippe.
That heavy coating of wood-ashes that I gave to a half-acre near the apiary proved most effective, and the plot now looks as if a flurry of snow had passed over it, the white clover blossoms are so thick.
At dinner the experiences of the apiary were discussed, and Leonard asked, "Do you think the old-fashioned custom of beating tin pans and blowing horns influences a swarm to alight?
Years upon years of life in the apiary seems to have no appreciable effect towards their final, permanent domestication.
Never did apiary have a finer outlook or more rugged surroundings.
Cultivated on Apiary Experimental Plats, 1904; only a few plants grew and bloomed.
Cultivated inApiary Experimental plats; no bees on it; other plants in bloom.
As soon as the swarming season begins, the Apiary must be closely watched almost every day, or some of the new swarms will be lost.
If the number of colonies is to be increased to a large extent, then the bees in the Apiary will be tasked to the utmost in building new comb, as well as in rearing brood.
If an Apiary is approached when the bees are out in great numbers, thousands and tens of thousands will continue their busy pursuits without at all interfering with those who do not molest them.
The bees in Dzierzon's Apiary were observed by him, early in the spring before the time for procuring pollen, to bring rye meal to their hives from a neighboring mill.
Our forced swarms might all be removed from the Apiary where they were formed, to the other, and our nuclei treated in the same way, and there would be no necessity for confining the bees after their removal.
Proper condition of anApiary at close of honey season, 321.
If I had an Apiary of a hundred colonies, in less than a week, if the weather was pleasant, I could without any assistance easily finish the business of swarming for the whole season.
These circumstances made me very anxious to examine your hives, and induced me to visit your Apiary in the village of West Philadelphia, last August.
The number of persons who can afford to do this must be very small; and I have seldom heard of a bee-keeper, in our country, who has an Apiary on a scale extensive enough to make bee-keeping anything more than a subordinate pursuit.
When no apiary from which to purchase can be found, but where the disease has made its appearance, and you are necessitated to purchase from such, or not at all, you cannot be too cautious about it.
To avoid as far as possible diseased brood, find an apiary where it has never made its appearance, to make purchases.
So with bees, one apiary of two hundred stocks might find honey in abundance for all, and another of forty might almost starve.
If he was satisfied with workers as well as drones, why does he not visit the apiary long before noon, and fill his crop with them?
There is nothing about the apiarymore difficult to determine, nothing more likely than to be deceived.
It has been said that "three out of five who commence an apiary must fail;" but let us suppose it is through ignorance or inattention, and not inherent with the bees.
Francis Jager, the apiculturist, at 11:30 o'clock, at the Apiary Building.
The manner of management of hisapiary will depend upon such decision.
To the left of this building a very large apiary supported on beams, arranged like a balcony, formed a projection above the valley.
Father,' said she, 'I think at the end of the apiary the third hive on the right is still open.
At first I liked to sit for hours in the apiary all alone and listen to their humming for hours together.
It is desirable to have a workshop in the apiary where the crop may be cared for and supplies may be prepared.
In increasing the apiary it is sometimes best to buy colonies in box hives on account of their smaller cost and to transfer them to hives with movable frames.
The Bacteria of theApiary with Special Reference to Bee Diseases.
The terms under which the apiaryis placed on land belonging to some one else is a matter for mutual agreement.
If honey is purchased for feeding, great care should be taken that it comes from a healthy apiary, otherwise the apiary may be ruined by disease.
The outapiary should also be near to some friendly person, so that it may be protected against depredation and so that the owner may be notified if anything goes wrong.
If a few colonies in the apiarythat are strong enough to go above refuse to do so, lift supers from some colonies that have started to work above and give them to the slow colonies.
The grass may be cut with a lawn mower, but it will often be found more convenient and as efficient to pasture one or more head of sheep in the apiary inclosure.
It is difficult for a bee keeper to keep his apiary free from disease if others about him have diseased colonies which are not properly treated.
The majority of honey-producing plants are wild, and the bee keeper must largely accept the locality as he finds it and manage his apiary so as to get the largest possible amount of the available nectar.
Introduction 5 Location of the apiary 6 Equipment in apparatus 9 Workshop 9 Hives.
There are generally colonies in the apiary to which frames of brood can be given to advantage.
The material should be of the best; the parts must be accurately made, so that all frames or hives in the apiary are interchangeable.
This may be remedied by having the apiary some distance from the clothes-drying yard, or by removing the bees from the cellars on days when no clothes are to be hung out.
The best cheap work on bees with which we are acquainted is Practical Bee-keeping, by Frank Cheshire, Editor of the Apiary Department of The Country.
To Ligurianise an apiary of common bees, it is only necessary to remove the queens and introduce those of the new kind, after a proper interval.
The bees in the well stocked apiary had already gathered a fine supply of honey from the wild flowers of the surrounding prairies.
Goldsmith describes from his own observation, a kind of floating apiary in some parts of France and Piedmont.
I have heard of one gentleman, however, who was very anxious to establish an apiary upon his property in Antigua, and accordingly he obtained some choice hives, which in due time were safely deposited in his well-stocked garden.
It is almost needless to mention, that upon the return of the gentleman, whose absence had been protracted, he found his favourite insects defunct; nor need I animadvert upon the vexation his overseer's management of anapiary caused him.
Far away, caressing their idleness in the midst of the flowers, the males have beheld the apparition, have breathed the magnetic perfume that spreads from group to group till every apiary near is instinct with it.
In very many colonies of the apiary this massacre will often take place on the same day.
An hour spent in the midst of the apiarywill be less instructive, perhaps; but the things we shall see will be infinitely more stimulating and more actual.
I have not yet forgotten the first apiary I saw, where I learned to love the bees.
The writer has practiced with profit the transportation of nearly a hundred colonies from a country apiary 10 miles distant to Washington for the linden and sweet clover yield.
Eventually the diseased apiary becomes, by the removal of the developing brood and the death of the old bees, reduced to nothing.
Even with a large apiary probably no case exists in which, in the present condition of the subject, planting for honey alone would prove profitable.
Whether a large number might be profitably kept in a given locality can be decided only by a careful examination as to the honey-producing flora within range of the apiary (see pp.
In all of this work the utmost care should be exercised to avoid the dripping of honey about the apiary or the exposure of implements, receptacles, or combs smeared with or containing honey from the diseased colonies.
The knowledge, skill, industry, and promptness of the one who undertakes the care of the apiary have likewise much to do with the return.
Where an increase of colonies is desired, and in case no one can be near the apiary to care for natural swarms with clipped queens, some one of the artificial methods of forming new colonies may be advantageously employed.
At one time the writer had anapiary in the city of Detroit, Mich.
By following this plan you can soon have quite an apiary and be on your way to enjoy the profits as well as the pleasures of bee hunting.
It seemed that the whole apiary had swarmed out and come to the bait--hundreds were soon flying towards this apiary.
Families in the same apiary are more likely to engage in this unlawful enterprize than any others, probably because they are located so near each other, and are more likely to learn their comparative strength.
An apiary should be so situated, that swarming may be observed, and at the same time where the bees can obtain food easily, and in the greatest abundance.
The monk from Obdorsk, having been directed to the apiary by the beekeeper, who was also a very silent and surly monk, went to the corner where Father Ferapont’s cell stood.
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