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DR. GATES. That is a very pertinent question. 

 Location was a topic which we hoped would be discussed 

 here this afternoon, but the speaker, I understood, is ill. I 

 think that protection of the bees is of the first importance. 

 The beekeeper tries to locate his apiary where it is shielded 

 from winds. We know that a wind-swept apiary doesn't 

 produce honey, and the brood doesn't come there, so if your 

 orchard doesn't afford more than one place which is near 

 shelter, the bees had better be located in that sheltered 

 spot; if, on the other hand, your orchard is very extensive 

 and you can secure several places in which to scatter the 

 bees, it will be well to do so. You can work from this 

 standpoint : We know that bees fly ordinarily two miles 

 for their honey, and from the experience of those seed grow- 

 ers in Ontario it would seem that the maximum efficiency 

 may be obtained at a radius of about a mile, and I presume 

 there are very few orchards in this locality which would 

 have to depend on more than a mile radius. 



There is another aspect, namely, that the care of the 

 bees is much easier if you have them focussed in one spot. 



I will now open the hive which I have here. It is a 

 novelty to some of you, perhaps. (Illustrating on hive) 

 The base on which the hive rests is known as the bottom 

 board, and there is only one feature in a bottom board 

 which needs to be emphasied, namely, to have it solid and 

 of good weather-resisting wood. They are usually made of 

 cypress. As to thickness, you should specify that the board 

 be ys of an inch in thickness, reversible, so that you may 

 liave an entrance % of an inch one way and % of an inch 

 the other. This is as near standard as anything we have 

 ,been able to obtain. 



The hive proper is the brood chamber. The standard 

 Mve for the country is termed the ten-frame Langstroth 

 hive, invented by a man from Greenfield and Colrain. The 

 most satisfactory dimensions will be 16 i/i inches. While 

 there are both 16 and 16 y^ inch, we recommend the 16 i/4 

 bcause it gives a little more leeway in operating frames. 

 An effort will be made at the National Beekeepers' Conven- 

 tion next month to standardize the Langstroth 10-frame. 

 which beekeepers ha>e been looking forward to. 



