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pose, or already occupied by other beekeepers, to go several miles be- 

 fore reaching a suitable place. The point in view should be to so lo- 

 cate the apiaries that any, or all, of them may be easily reached. 



An elevated flood land apiary. 



Sometimes it becomes necessar\' to put them in Ioav valleys and river 

 bottoms, subject to overflow by flood waters, in which event the hives 

 should be properly elevated upon high benches oi' scaffolds. 



HOW PAR DO BEES PLY.^ 



This is another question often asked. Under ordinary eimditidns 

 bees do not go as far in quest of stores as is generally supposed. Un- 

 less compelled to do so, they rarely forage to greater distance than 

 three miles, and that less profitably than if thev are not required to- 



Showing the high scaffolds. 



