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particular system in mind would easily be led 

 into buying a lot of equipment which will be 

 unsuited to the location in which he lives, or the 

 system of honey production which he may later 

 decide to follow. 



Choosing a Location. — To the man who 

 expects to make honey production a business 

 the choice of a location is a most important mat- 

 ter. The honey plants within reach and the 

 markets available for his crop are both prime 

 essentials for success. If the locality is already 

 well stocked with bees he cannot hope for a 

 profitable venture unless he buy out some man 

 already on the ground, and thus take over the 

 bees that are already located. 



If there are long periods of time when no 

 honey is gathered, it will draw too heavily on 

 the stores to make a profitable season probable. 

 A desirable location is one where there is some- 

 thing from which the bees can at least get a 

 hving during most of the growing season, so 



