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that there are many drawbacks to the cultivation of bees 
four or five miles off, but there are also some advantages. 
The crop sometimes fails in one locality, and is very good 
in another a short distance away. One Apiary may be in a 
hilly country, where white clover abounds, and another on 
low lands, where Fall blossoms never fail. It is well— 
according to a familiar proverb— not to ‘‘ put all our eggs 
in one basket.’’ 
In many years’ practice of keeping bees in five or six 
different Apiaries, occupying a range of country about 
twenty miles in width, we have found out that the crop will 
vary greatly in a few miles, owing to the different flora of 
the various localities, and more especially to the greater or 
less amount of rain-fall at the proper time. We have also 
learned that an Apiary placed near a large body of water 
(the Mississippi), will produce less honey than one a mile 
or two from it. owing to the smaller area of pasturage in 
reach of the bees. 
583. In establishing an Out-Apiary on some farmer’s 
land, the following must be taken into consideration: Select 
a farm on which a grove or an orchard is near the house, 
some distance from the road. The place ought to be, at 
least, three miles in a bee-line from your own bee-farm. It 
is not necessary that it should be more than four miles 
away.* 
Locate your bees with some careful man. Do not trust 
a farmer who lets his fences fall, who leaves his mower in 
the yard over Winter, or puts his cowsin his orchard. You 
will never rest easy, if you think that some of your hives 
may be upset any day by a vagrant cow. 
Do not put your bees on land which is tenanted. Let 
* Mr. J.M. Hambaugh, of Spring, Nl., harvested altogether different yields 
both in quality and quantity, from two Apiaries only two and a half miles 
apart. This agrees with our oft repeated experience in Apiaries three or four 
toiles apart. 
