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when it is convenient, I recommend a preference to be 

 given to the aforesaid direction. 



MORNING SUN NECESSARY. 



Every husbandman knows full well how much more 

 labor his hired men can perform, when they get to work 

 at the rising of the sun, than when they lie in bed until 

 that luminary peers in at the windows of their bed-rooms 

 at an angle of 20° or 30° To the above may be likened 

 the sallying forth of the honey-bee. It is not often that 

 bees sally forth to the fields in the morning, until the rays ' 

 of the sun strike their hives. For example, two hives may 

 be placed in the months- of June, July and August, in 

 different situations ; the one where the sun cannot shine 

 upon it, until 7 o'clock, A. M., and the other, where his 

 rays will fall upon it, at half-past 5. Now mark the 

 result. The bees in the hive where the warmth of the 

 sun reaches them at half-past 5, will be seen leaving 

 their hives at that hour, while those of the other hive, 

 remain within until 7 o'clock, one hour and a half later, j 

 Thus it may be seen, that it is important to so place our 

 hives, that they will receive the morning sun. if the 

 bee-house front the south, it would be well to have a 

 movable shutter at the east end, to be raised during the 

 summer ; say two feet space opposite the end hive, to be 

 thus open, and closed at pleasure. 



OFFENSIVE SMELLS DETRIMENTAL. 



It is advisable to place the apiary out of the reach of 



