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the spring and fall. The Villemain apiary appears to have 

 been in the poorest location, the range of the bees being 

 restricted by the river, but it was near the only basswcod 

 grove in the country and the bees gathered honey in the fall 

 from the islands. The Sack apiary seems to have been too 



near other apiaries but was 

 actually second only to the 

 Sherwood yard. The bees 

 did not work more than a 

 mile along the bluff but went 

 three miles to the river, 

 having the bottom lands 

 covered with fall flowers 

 within their range of flight. 

 They were separated from 

 the adjacent apiaries by hills 

 and timber. The two small 

 circles show sites of former 

 apiaries, used before the 

 Sherwood apiary was estab- 

 lished. The bees in the 

 home apiary were only a 

 mile and a half from abun- 

 dant pasturage on an island 

 but did not reach it, although 

 they sometimes went two 

 miles or more in another di- 

 rection. 



This description of conditions in 1891 l may not represent 

 the condition of the Dadant apiaries to-day. The map, 

 however, shows the locations decided upon in that region by 

 an experienced beekeeper who had kept bees in that district 

 for twenty years. It shows that distance from one apiary 

 to the next is not the sole consideration but that contour 

 of the land, timber tracts and other barriers must be taken 



1 Dadant, C. P., 1891. Arrangement of out-apiaries. Gleanings in 

 Bee Culture, XIX, pp. 60-61. 



FIG. 97. Map showing distribution 

 of Dadant apiaries, Hamilton, 111. 



