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produce a considerable effect upon the harvest of 

 honey. To say, therefore, that a particular system 

 of management will in any situation uniformly cause 

 a great product of wax and honey, betokens a want 

 of due attention to the sources whence honey is pro- 

 cured, and attributes to a system what is chiefly due 

 to the locality in which it has been adopted. There 

 are not wanting cases in which it has been necessary 

 to feed bees in one district, at the very time that in 

 its neighborhood were others actively engaged in stor- 

 ing their warehouses with honey. c M. Huber lived at 

 Cour, near Lausanne ; he had the lake on one side of 

 his domicil and vineyards on the other. He soon per- 

 ceived the disadvantage of his position (as regarded 

 his bees). When the orchards of Cour had shed 

 their blossoms, and the few meadows in the neighbor- 

 hood had been mown, he saw the stores of his stock 

 hives diminish daily, and the labors of the bees cease 

 so entirely that even in summer they would have died 

 of hunger had he not succored them. In the mean- 

 time, though matters were going on so badly at Cour, 

 the bees at Renan, Chabliere, at the woods of Vaux, 

 of Cery, and places at the distance of only half a 

 German league, were living in the greatest abund- 

 ance, threw numerous swarms, and filled their hives 

 with wax and honey.' ' Again, Huber himself says : 

 " They succeeded no better at Vevay, although it is 

 not more than half a league from the place to Hont- 

 ville, where they thrive remarkably well." Similar 

 disparities in the productiveness of neighboring local- 



