18 BEEKEEPING 



There are probably few places in this 

 country where bees, if kept in not too 

 large numbers, will fail to be profitable. 

 Some sections may easily be "over- 

 stocked" but such places are already well 

 supplied with beekeepers. In certain 

 parts of northern Indiana I remember 

 that beekeepers sometimes quarreled 

 over the "right" to certain locations. 

 Individual apiaries had as many as six 

 hundred colonies and the pastures were 

 no doubt crowded; but in the average 

 farming districts of the country a few 

 colonies of bees may easily be maintained 

 at each farm home with no fear of much 

 more than touching the surface of the nec- 

 tar supply which is available but unused. 

 Even in cities bees have been and are be- 

 ing kept with entire success. I remember 

 that one year when I lived in the city my 

 secretary kept a colony of bees in the 

 "back yard" of her home in a densely 

 populated part of the residence district. 

 That colony produced something more 



