RANGE OF PASTURE.—OVERSTOCKING. 65 
RANGE OF PASTURE._OVERSTOCKING. 
Bees will bring stores from a distance of three or four 
miles ; but the nearer they find supplies, the more rap- 
idly they accumulate them ; and they will often accept 
an infericr quality, rather than go a great distance for a 
superior. So great is the yield of good pasturage, that 
there is but little danger of overstocking, From a re- 
port made to the Austrian government, on the state of 
bee culture in twenty-one states of that Empire, furnished 
in an excellent article on “ Bee Culture,” by Mr. Bruckisch, 
of Texas, in the U.S. Patent Office Report for 1860, p. 
282, we quote as follows : 
“Average number of bee-hives to one square mile : 
Uransylvanlanis 1a... o00| Serbia, Banat. asec. + on 400 
CrOaitianty 0232p BME: Yesane S20 nC ominthiiaas sain ee. as 000 
COR eer ase vades ce. 04 Os EO UV Rl arrantees etre sesratier. DLO 
CTC ieee teeny. orrienst teagan OO CARING etean ete wi cn ae. 900 
MOA ACY ater a sate ecru 360 
In Mr. Langstroth’s valuable work on the Honey Bee, 
we find statements from Mr. Samuel Wagner, Editor of 
the Bee Journal, Philadelphia, in which he says, that the 
present opinion of the correspondents of the German Bee 
Journal appears to be that a district cannot readily be 
overstocked, and Dzierzon says in practice at least, ‘2 
as never done.” In Russia and Hungary, apiaries number- 
ing from 2,000 to 5,000 colonies are frequent ; and 4,060 
hives are sometimes congregated, in autumn, on the 
heaths in Germany. OxtrL says :— 
“ When a large flock of sheep is grazing on a limited 
area, there may soon be a deficiency of pasture. But this 
cannot be asserted of bees, as a good honey-district can- 
not readily be overstocked with them. To-day, when the 
