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sons may easily convince themselves of the accuracy of my 

 statements, by the following experiments : About a week 

 after hiving a second swarm, or after the birth of a young 

 queen in a hive, and after she has begun to lay eggs, open 

 the hive and remove her: carry her a few rods in front of 

 the Apiary, and let her fly ; she will at once enter her own 

 hive, and thus show that she has previously left it. If, how- 

 ever, an old queen is removed at Kny time after hiving the 

 swarm, she will not be able to distinguish her own hive from 

 any other, and will thus show that she has not left it, since 

 the swarm was hived. If this experiment is performed upon 

 a queen, impregnated the previous year, the same result will 

 follow ; for as she never left it after that event, she will have 

 lost all recollection of its relative position in the Apiary. 

 The first of these experiments, has been suggested by 

 Dzierzon. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



The Apiary — Procuring Bees to start it — Transferring Bees from the 

 Common Hive. 



The proper location of an Apiary, especially to one pro- 

 posing to enter largely into the cultivation of bees, is a point 

 of very great importance. If the bee-keeper is at liberty to 

 choose his situation, his first solicitude should be, to select a 

 region where the best pasturage for bees can be found. In 

 some favored places, bees will accumulate large stores, 

 while in others, perhaps only a few miles distant,* they may 



* " While Huber resided at Cour, and afterwards at Vivai, his bees 

 suffered so much from scanty pasturage, that he could only preserve 



