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honey dearth. He must arrange his apiaries so that they will 

 be most advantageously located for the bad season as well as the 

 good. 



The shape of the country sometimes has a great deal to do 

 with the distance bees will fly to get nectar. Instances have 

 been noted where bees went as far as six miles for nectar. Over 

 hills and woods bees will fly less distance than over a level prairie 

 or down an unbroken valley. 



Honey Flora 



Not only m choosing his general location, but in choosing 

 each apiary site, the beekeeper must be guided largely by the 

 flora afforded. There is a wide range of flora sometimes in a 

 restricted territory, and it may be possible to increase the yield 

 to an appreciable extent by observing the rules which apply in 

 deciding upon the general apiary site — the one which has the 

 greatest variety of honey and pollen flowers, besides having the 

 best opportunity for major honey flows from the more important 

 plants. 



A shift of location of a mile or two, especially in a broken 

 country, may give your bees access to a honey flow which they 

 might otherwise miss. It may even be advisable to change the 

 location for a single season to place the apiarv near a large f ield 

 of alsike, sweet clover, buckwheat , or similar plant.^ 



Good Roads 



The location, if possible, should be on good roads, which will 

 allow of trips and examinations even in most unfavorable weather. 

 Spring trips, for feeding and early examinations, often have to 

 be taken at a time when roads are at their worst, and it is some- 

 thing in its favor if the apiary can be reached without undue 

 effort. 



Then, too, there is the hauling away of the surplus crop, the 

 requeening, and other examinations, which must be done at the 

 stipulated time, muddy roads or not. 



