BEE MANUAL. 10$ 



AREA OF GROUND. 



If tne space available for placing the hives happens to be 

 very limited, one hive may be allowed for every 50 square feet, 

 so that a space of 100 feet square would be sufficient for two 

 hundred hives. This supposes the hives to be placed in rows 

 six feet apart from centre to centre in each row, and eight 

 feet from the centre of one row to that of the next behind it. 

 If space permits, however, it will be more desirable to have 

 them eight or even ten feet asunder in each row; there will then 

 be less risk of loss of young queens when returning from their 

 first flight, or even of mistakes being made by worker bees 

 returning loaded to their hives, and also less chance of incon- 

 venience from " robber bees " when extracting honey, or in 

 any other way working at the hives. Allowance has also to 

 be made for the apiary buildings, consisting of an extracting 

 house and honey store, a workshop and store for hives and 

 implements, and a fumigating room. These buildings may be 

 combined in one plan or separate according to circumstances, 

 but in the former case they must be central in the apiary, and 

 in any case the extracting house should be as near the centre 

 point of the whole number of hives as may be possible, and the 

 other buildings not far from the apiary. 



ARRANGEMENT OP HIVES. 



For the convenience of the bees, in giving them a free flight 

 to the entrance of their hive, and for that of their master, 



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Fig. 35,— ARRANGEMENT OF HIVES, 



that he may, when working at any one hive, not be in the line 

 of flight to that just behind him, the rows must be so arranged 

 that the hives in each shall be opposite the centre of the spaces 



