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Q. Will hen lice bother bees if one has them in a house apiary 
in the second story of a chicken establishment? 
A I have never heard of bees being bothered by such lice. 
Location. — Q. I would like your advice on choosing a location, 
as I am just beginning with bees and want to get the right loca- 
tion so that I may make the most honey. Some beekeepers re- 
port large crops. Should I locate in their section? 
A. A young man just making a start, and intending to make 
beekeeping the chief business of his life, will do well to look 
about and choose a location specially suited to that business. For 
that matter, so might one already engaged in the business. But 
he would be unwise, especially if already well established, to go 
some distance to a new place, knowing nothing about it, but 
that some one had secured a very large yield of honey. Possibly 
that one year of great flow may be offset by two of failure. Pos- 
sibly. the distance or inconvenience of access to a market may be 
so great as to counterbalance the greatness of the yield. 
Then there are considerations outside of beekeeping not 
lightly to be ignored. Climate, home and surrounding, are all of 
importance. Some of the northern beekeepers in attendance at 
the National meeting in Los Angeles some years ago, who had 
cast longing looks towards that golden land, went home entirely 
satisfied to remain where they were, after seeing some of the 
California apiaries. Of course, all locations in California are not 
the same, but some of them are dreary enough. To get the ad- 
vantage of pasturage, an apiary is located in some canyon, away 
from the haunts of man, the nearest neighbor a mile or more 
away, outside of the sound of bell of church or school. With 
many it is a life of exile during the honey season, the rest of the 
year being passed elsewhere. But all wouid not like that sort of 
life. 
On the whole, taking into account the ties of friendship, and 
old associations, as well as the trouble and expense of making a 
change, the probability is that not one beekeeper in ten will find 
himself better off anywhere in the world than right where he is 
now. 
Q. If you were to start again from the beginning, intending to 
make beekeeping your life calling, and had no ties to bind you to 
any particular locality, where would you be likely to settle? 
A. I would do a lot of investigating before settling. What 
might suit me might not suit you. I’m growing more and more to 
think that there’s a good deal of equality in locations, advantages 
