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CHAPTER VI. 
THE APIARY. 
SITE AND PREPARATION FOR AN APIARY. 
While every rural home is favored with a suitable 
place for a few stocks of bees, I would advise the nov- 
ice to choose a spot agreeing, as near as possible, with 
the following hints on the subject : 
Find a place with shady trees, the limbs of which are 
not so low or dense as to intefere with the flight of the 
bees, away from dusty roads, and from places where 
horses or cattle are accustomed to stand, on the south- 
east side of a gently sloping hill, near running water, 
with a grove of trees or a high hill north-west of it. 
If such a place can be found, it is the most desirable 
known for the purpose. 'Hives may have their en- 
trances in almost any direction; yet to have them face 
south or east is preferable. The sun shining against the 
entrance induces bees to begin their labor early, and 
