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Apiaries should be so situated as to be con- 

 venient.-to their owner, as much as any other 

 buildii^ilgs. 



I have them front towards all the cardinal 

 points, but can distinguish no difference in 

 their prosperity. 



Young swarms should be scattered as much 

 as convenient during tlie summer season, at 

 least eight feet apart. They should be set in 

 a frame and so covered as to exclude the sun 

 and weather from the hive. 



It is not surprising that this branch of ru- 

 ral economy, in consequence of the depreda- 

 tions of the moth, is so much neglected. — 

 Notwithstanding, in so^^ parts of our coun- 

 try, the business of managing bees has been 

 entirely abandoned for years, I am confident 

 they may be cultivated in such a manner as 

 to render them more profitable to their own- 

 ers, than any branch of agriculture, in pro- 

 portion to the capital necessary to be invest- 

 ed in their stock. They are not taxable 

 property, neither does it require a large land 

 investment, nor fences ; neither does it re- 

 quire the owner to labor through the sum- 

 mer to support them through the winter. — 

 Care is, indeed, necessary, but a child, or 

 a superanuated person can perform most of 



