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prefer to place them in rows sixteen feet apart, with the 

 hives about six feet apart in the rows. This isolates each 







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hive completely, and, while handling one colony, the Apiar- 

 ist is not in danger of being stung by the bees of another. 

 The bees are also less likely to enter the wrong hives (503). 



