so 



ADVANCED BEE CULTURE. 



marked in some conspicuous manner that will easily enable them to 

 distinguish their own hives. 



In queen rearing it is important that the small hives, containing 

 the nuclei, be scattered about promiscuously; the greater the irregu- 

 larity and oddity of the arrangement, theless will be thelossof (jueens 

 from their entering wrong hives; but, in a large apiary managed for 

 honey, it is doubtful if there is a more practical arrangement than 

 that of placing the hives in rows; and it seems to me that a little is 

 gained, and nothing lost, by having the rows radiate from the honey 

 house door. 



