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Q. Will hen lice bother bees if one has them in a house apiary 

 in the second story of a chicken establishment? 



A I have never heard of bees being bothered by such lice. 



Location. — Q. I would like your advice on choosing a location, 

 as I am just beginning with bees and want to get the right loca- 

 tion so that I may make the most honey. Some beekeepers re- 

 port large crops. Should I locate in their section? 



A. A young man just making a start, and intending to make 

 beekeeping the chief business of his life, will do well to look 

 about and choose a location specially suited to that business. For 

 that matter, so might one already engaged in the business. But 

 he would be unwise, especially if already well established, to go 

 some distance to a new place, knowing nothing about it, but 

 that some one had secured a very large yield of honey. Possibly 

 that one year of great flow may be offset by two of failure. Pos- 

 sibly the distance or inconvenience of access to a market may be 

 so great as to counterbalance the greatness of the yield. 



Then there are considerations outside of beekeeping not 

 lightly to be ignored. Climate, home and surrounding, are all of 

 importance. Some of the northern beekeepers in attendance at 

 the National meeting in Los Angeles some years ago, who had 

 cast longing looks towards that golden land, went home entirely 

 satisfied to remain where they were, after seeing some of the 

 California apiaries. Of course, all locations in California are not 

 the same, but some of them are dreary enough. To get the ad- 

 vantage of pasturage, an apiary is located in some canyon, away 

 from the haunts of man, the nearest neighbor a mile or more 

 away, outside of the sound of bell of church or school. With 

 many it is a life of exile during the honey season, the rest of the 

 year being passed elsewhere. But all would not like that sort of 

 life. 



On the whole, taking into account the ties of friendship, and 

 old associations, as well as the trouble and expense of making a 

 change, the probability is that not one beekeeper in ten will find 

 himself better off anywhere in the world than right where he is 

 now. 



Q. If you were to start again from the beginning, intending to 

 make beekeeping your life calling, and had no ties to bind you to 

 any particular locality, where would you be likely to settle? 



A. I would do a lot of investigating before settling. What 

 might suit me might not suit you. I'm growing more and more to 

 think that there's a good deal of equality in locations, advantages 



