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OUT-APIARIES. NO. II. 



CHOOSING A LOCATION. 



tFTER deciding to have an out-apiary, you 

 must decide on a location. It is quite likely 

 that local circumstances will have a good 

 deal to do in deciding. Some relative or 

 friend may live somewhere near the proper 

 distance, and I would not hesitate to have an apiary 

 half a mile further or nearer, for the sake of be- 

 ing at a place where the people were pleasant to get 

 along with. My first out-apiary was located at my 

 father-in-law's, although it was a mile nearer than 

 at that time I thought right. The second was 

 reached by a roundabout way which makes me 

 travel a mile or more extra, but a very pleasant 

 relative lives there. The third was chosen mainly 

 without reference to the people; and as the plan 

 then taken in choosing was about the one I should 

 in general advise, I will tell how it was done. One 

 day, some time before I wanted to occupy the site, 

 when we had plenty of time for a pleasant ride I 

 took my wife and her sister in the buggy to pros- 

 pect. I wanted them along because we three were 

 the whole working force, and they were as much 

 interested as I; and, besides, we would enjoy the 

 ride. I knew about the direction, and something of 

 the distance I wanted to go, so we rode along, dis- 

 cussing the different places as we came to them. 

 "That place wouldn't do, for there isn't a spot 

 where we could be in the shade, and we don't want 

 to work in the hot sun." "There's a nice little 

 grove, but it's too far from the house, and thieves 

 would be likely to feel more free at such a distance 

 from the house." "Those apple-trees would do 

 nicely, only they are very close to the road, and we 

 should be in plain sight of every one passing, 

 which isn't so pleasant as being a little more pri- 

 vate, and, besides, I suspect there would be more 

 temptation to meddle with them at night, if some 



meddler should see them so very plainly every time 

 he passed by." 



One or the other of the above objections lay in 

 more or less force against all the places on the 

 straight road and upon the side-roads until we came 

 to one where was quite an evergreen grove right 

 in front of the house, a hedge between one end of 

 it and the road, so that we should be reasonably 

 near the house, in a dense shade (too dense, I think), 

 right close by the road, but entirely screened from 

 it by the evergreen hedge. It was by odds the best 

 place of all we had seen. The farmer was one with 

 whom I had scarcely any acquaintance, but for 

 many years I had known him by reputation as an 

 upright man, and, moreover, I was strongly im- 

 pressed in his favor from the fact that two sons 

 who had been to school to me years before were 

 manly, trustworthy fellows. So I drove up to the 

 door. 



"How do you do, Mr. Belden? I have too many 

 bees at home, and I want to find a place to put 

 some. What is the chance of my bringing some 

 here?" 



He replied, laughingly, "Oh 1 I couldn't have 

 any bees here. They'd sting me every time I tried 

 to do any thing with them." 



"But," said I, " I don't want you to do any thing 

 with them. We'll take all the care of them. All I 

 ask of you is to let them stay here." 



"Oh ! if that's the way, bring on all you like, and 

 welcome." 



" And how much shall I pay you for rent and for 

 trouble ? " 



"Oh! nothing at all." 



And no insisting made any difference. 



I want to press pretty strongly the matter of hav- 

 ing nice people where you have an out-apiary. If 

 things are unpleasant, you can't pick up and leave 

 at a moment's warning, and it is in the power of 

 your landlord to make it uncomfortable for you in 



