no LOCATION OF HIVES. 



Place an alighting board in front of each hive. 

 Get a board about eighteen inches wide and two 

 feet long. Nail on some cleats at each end, to pre- 

 vent warping. Rest one edge of this board on the 

 ground, the other edge on the end of the platform 

 in front of the hive. By this arrangement many 

 bees will be saved in early spring which would 

 otherwise be lost. By the old plan of setting the 

 hives two or three feet high, with no alighting 

 board, and a free draught of wind beneath, the loss 

 of bees was very great, especially in the early 

 spring months, on chilly afternoons following a 

 very warm forenoon. The bees, returning loaded 

 with pollen, are unable to reach a hive placed so 

 high, and are blown to the earth by the hundreds, 

 and becoming chilled, die. The death of a few 

 bees is a great loss in early spring, for they are re- 

 quired in keeping up the animal heat in the hive to 

 foi-ward breeding. 



The location of bees as here recommended will 

 be found greatly superior to any other, for other 

 reasons than those mentioned, and which are too 

 numerous to herein specify. 



Every one who commences bee keeping should 

 ever remember, that bees always mark the location 

 of their hives. The young bee the first time it 

 leaves the hive invariably does this. The same is 

 true with all swarms, in the first flight in early 

 spring, after being dormant in the hive through the 

 winter months. 



In marking the location, the bee comes from the 

 hive, and at the entrance, rises on the wing. Turn- 



