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them be placed at some responsible farmer’s own home, for 
a tenant may leave on short notice, and you cannot remove 
your bees at all seasons. 
584. The terms usually made by us for a bee location 
are as follows: The farmer furnishes us the Apiary ground, 
one spare room during extracting, and a shed or a corner 
in some empty room for our hives, combs, and fixtures. He 
also furnishes board for the Apiarist and his help while at 
work. In exchange, he gets one-fifth of the honey, and 
seventy-five cents for every natural swarm he harvests. His 
sole duties are, hiving swarms, and seeing that no accidents 
happen to the Apiary. When bees are run for extracted 
honey, the number of natural swarms is very limited (454). 
We can always find more bee locations than we want. In 
fact, we have never yet met a farmer who refused to take 
bees on such terms. 
We prefer giving the farmer a share of the crop, to giv- 
ing him a stated sum for ground rent, etc., as some of our 
leading bee-keepers do, because we thus give him an inter- 
est in our success, and he is more likely to pay attention to 
our bees, and to produce crops that will yield some honey. 
Association of interests means progress, peace, and har- 
mony. 
685. Six Apiaries, containing in all 600 colonies, are 
probably the greatest number that one man can oversee. 
In good localities, an Apiarist will find more profit from six 
such Apiaries, than aninteliigent farmer from half a Section 
of land, and the outlay of money is less. 
Honey-Hovss. 
586. Few pursuits require so small an outlay for tools and 
implements as practical bee culture. Outside of the cost of 
hives, frames, sections, and honey packages, the total out- 
