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that there are many drawluu'ks to the cultivation of licos 

 four or live 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 " pvxt 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 greatl}' 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 cows in his orchard. You 

 will never rest easy, if you tliink 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, 111, , harvested altogether different yields 

 hothin quality and <|iiantity, from two Apiaries only two and a half miles 

 apart. This agrees with otir oft repeated experience in Apiaries three or four 

 miles apart. 



