LOCATION OF THE APIARY 



hitch up again, and there will be no risk of the 

 horses being stung. 



In some sections of the country, migratory 

 bee-keeping is practised, the bees being moved 

 from place to place to take advantage of the 

 flow that may come in districts remote from 

 the yards already located; though this has 

 been tried in Florida and other parts of the 

 country, the results have not warranted the 

 extra trouble, save in some parts of Europe, 

 where it is carried on quite extensively. The 

 better plan is to locate the bees where the 

 forage is abundant, and leave them there 

 permanently. 



In shipping full colonies of bees, or two- or 

 three-frame nuclei, the screens referred to 

 above are all that is needed, and in the case 

 of nuclei, small boxes made from old boxes 

 secured at some store with a piece of screen 

 tacked over the top and the bottom, with the 

 frames firmly secured by small nails, fully 

 answer the purpose. Be sure in every case 

 to see that the wire screens are properly ad- 



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