CHAPTER III 



SELECTING APIARY SITES 



Having chosen his general location, it remains for the bee- 

 keeper to select sites for his individual apiaries. With the object 

 in view of an ever increasing business, these apiaries should be 

 located with due respect to each other and to the home yard, to 

 make the work as systematic as possible. With most outapiarists 

 using automobiles, to do their work, it is oftentimes possible 

 to visit several apiaries in a day, and for this, especially, the 

 apiaries should be arranged in series, having, for instance, three 

 or four apiaries in one general direction so they may be reached 

 on the same trip without too much extra time spent on the road. 



Other things being equal, it would be a mistake to locate 

 one apiary ten miles south and the other ten miles north of the 

 home yard when they might be placed in the same general direction 

 and four or five miles apart. 



Distance Apart 

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As a general rule apiaries of any size should not be located 



less than two miles apart, and if the terrain is not limited, it would 

 be well to increase this distance to four or five miles. It takes 

 little time with a horse, and still less with a ear, to travel the 

 extra two or three miles when this would be an advantage rather 

 than have the pasturage overlap. 



This matter of distance makes less difference in a bountiful 

 season than in a poor one. In the white clover regions durinQ 

 a heavv flow it is doubtful whether be es go farther thfu, a, m\]i^ 

 in search of nectar, and it is certain that the bulk of their harves]- , 

 is pr ocured much nearer than this. But the beekeeper has not 

 only to consider the heavy flow, but also the light flows and 



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