while business will be well repaid for the trouble taken to search 
out the most advantageous location. There are locations where, 
because of a variety of nectar-secreting plants, there is usually more 
than one major honey flow, making it less likely that there will 
be an entire crop failure should any one of the surplus honey plants 
fail to yield. Such a location the wise business beekeeper will use 
much care to find. Selecting a place where a natural windbreak, 
either forest or bluff, will provide protection from the prevailing 
winter winds may mean the difference between strong colonies or 
weak and dead ones in the spring. (Fig. 7). A location in a wood 
is excellent so far as wind protection is concerned. 
Accessibility by the vehicle used is essential, as is also security 
from annoyance to animals or persons. If the beekeeper’s residence 
is beside one of the trunk highways there is then afforded the op- 
portunity to dispose of much of the crop at a roadside stand, and 
in this way more profit may be secured. 
APPARATUS 
Successful beekeeping does not require much nor complicated 
apparatus. As with other agricultural pursuits, there is a change 
in apparatus as the business develops. It is but a few years since 
swarms were hived in a plain box with perhaps two cross sticks 
to help support the combs. To get the honey the bees were killed 
(taken up) over a pit with sulphur fumes. Later the box was made 
with an upper and lower compartment. The surplus honey was 
removed from the upper compartment without killing the bees. This 
did not permit an examination of the interior of the colony and gave 
only a limited control of the bees. In 1851 Rev. L. L. Langstroth 
invented a hive with each comb surrounded by a frame so that each 
could be removed and replaced at will without damage. This was 
made to accommodate ten frames, and the hive used by the majority 
of beekeepers in America today is, so far as capacity and arrange- 
ment of frames are concerned, the same as that made by Langstroth. 
There is a tendency at this time to use a hive with deeper frames 
than the Langstroth. While those who advocate this present some 
strong arguments for its use, more experience seems necessary before 
definite statements are advisable. 
THE HIVE 
The modern ten-frame hive, sometimes called the Langstroth hive, 
is a box with removable top and bottom, (Fig. 8) the top being tight 
fitting and the bottom so made that there is a space below the level of 
the bottom of the box. (Fig. 42). This box measures outside 16 1/2 
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