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OUT-APIARIES. NO. III. -CONTINUED. 



DISTANCE APART. 



§UPPOSE the home apiary is located at a. With 

 a as a center, draw a circle be, the points b 

 and c being distant three miles from a. The 

 first series of apiaries will be located some- 

 where in the curved line be; and if just three 

 miles apart, there will be six of them, b, d, e, c,f, 

 and g. We may represent the range of the home 



apiary by the circle hi, and the ranges of the other 

 apiaries by circles of the same size. These circles 

 representing the range of each apiary are arbitrari- 

 ly assumed, and may be too large or too small, the 

 supposition being that the ranges overlap a little at 

 their outer edges, where the interference will not 

 amount to much. This makes, including the home 

 apiary, a series of seven apiaries. If it be desired 



to increase the number, or if the pasturage be such 

 that it is desirable to omit some of these and plant 

 others to one side, we can find the location for one 

 at k by finding a point three miles distant from each 

 of the points b and d. I is equidistant from b and g, 

 and m equidistant from k and b, and, for that mat- 

 ter, from I. If we complete two circles at these dis- 

 tances, we shall have altogether 19 apiaries, the 

 furthest of which shall be only six miles from 

 home. I think I'll not carry the thing any further 

 than 19. Let Capt. Hetherington make his own 

 plans. All this looks very easy and very regular on 

 paper. In actual practice it will be quite different. 



If you have a township map, cut an equilateral 

 triangle out of card-board, each side of [which shall 

 measure 1 hree miles on your map, and you can eas- 

 ily lay off your ground, for a, b, and d make an equi- 

 lateral triangle, so do a, d, and e, and so on. 



Marengo, 111. C. C. Miller. 



Well, old friend, I think you would get 

 pretty much all the honey, if you covered a 

 field as illustrated above, any way. During 

 an excessive yield there might not be bees 

 enough to consume it all ; but I think that, 

 with an apiary every three miles, as you 

 have planned it, there would not be very 

 much wasted any season. During poor sea- 

 sons I am afraid the two apiaries in the mid- 

 dle, a and 6, might have a pretty tough time 

 of it, especially if all the surrounding apia- 

 ries turn in and learn the trade of robbing. 

 By the way, do robber-bees ever go three 

 miles ? When 1 was thinking about getting 

 a locality for queen-rearing, where no rob- 

 bers would interfere, I thought that, if I 

 could go about a mile and a half from any 

 other bees, it would do very well. In our 

 locality I am pretty certain that bees are not 



