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less than a mile), during the working season, with 
no (or only inappreciable) loss, because the bees are 
placed on new ground, and so note their locality at 
their first flight. After remaining three or four 
weeks, they can be returned to the desired spot in 
the old apiary, because population will have changed 
and memory will have faded. Or they may be moved 
small distances each day on which the bees have 
freely flown, and thus, by degrees, be transferred to 
the position required. The interval over which any hive 
may safely be carried depends considerably upon sur- 
roundings. By example, if ten or twenty hives stood 
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near each other in an otherwise vacant field, the 
hives bodily would form the landmark directing the 
I weary foragers home ; and in this case, the whole apiary 
i might be carried twenty yards or more without damage, 
if the mutual positions of the several stocks were 
carefully preserved : for first the hives would be found, 
as a whole, by the bees, and then the special entrance 
! would be indicated by its relative situation. But if 
the hives had previously been gathered beneath the 
shade of a conspicuous tree, the loss resulting from 
>1 a change of even 5ft. or 6ft. might be serious. To 
