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quick growing plant, such as sunflower 

 or castor-beans, to provide the desired 

 shade. 



Where a large number of colonies are 

 kept they are better placed in groups of 

 three or four rather than in long unbro- 

 ken rows. While the bees have a remark- 

 able sense of direction and can find their 

 way home with wonderful accuracy there 

 is no reason for making this job any more 

 difficult than necessary. They have 

 enough to do when a honey flow is at its 

 height without searching for house num- 

 bers or asking the corner policeman to 

 point out where they live. 



