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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. 



684. 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 everj' 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 a ways 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. 



585. 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 an intelligent farmer from half a Section 

 of land, and the outlay of money is less. 



HONET-HOUSE. 



686. 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- 



