BEE MANUAL. 103 
AREA OF GROUND. 
If the 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 OF 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 
