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ami not so much liability of their being lost by falling 
into the grass. All ant hills in the immediate neighbor- 
hood of the Apiary should bo destroyed. Spider-web* 
and the like should be kept away from the hives. 
1 would recommend the planting of trees where you 
are not already favored with them and set one or two 
hives under each tree, always avoiding the setting of bees 
in a bee-house or room expecting to obtain larger quan- 
tities of honey by so doing, as there is no place like the 
open air for bees while collecting honey. The inconven- 
iences of a room speak decidedly against any such ar- 
rangement. The bees and honey are got at with difficul- 
ty. Many times the bees build their combs upon the 
outside of the hives where free access to the room • is 
given them, making it unsafe and even hazardous to at- 
tempt to manage them. While they are moie likely to 
be infested with millers, ants, spiders, &e., the inconven- 
ience of removing surplus honey, old combs, or in fact to 
have any control over them is against any such arrange- 
ment. 
Where persons are not favored with a situation like 
the one described above, select the most appropriate 
place you can, approaching as near as possible to our 
description; and if you can find no better place, put 
them in the attic or some room, and give them ogress 
and ingress to the hive by placing it at some window, 
giving the bees access out under the window. Some- 
times bees do remarkably well in rooms, but we object, 
if a better place can be found. Localities for Bee pas- 
turage vary much in regard to their value for saccharine 
deposits. Sections of country where the Alder, Maple, 
Hickory, Basswood, Whitewood and Chestnut grow, i* 
better than where Pine, Hemlock, Tamarack, Spruce and 
Cedar is the prevailing timber. Valleys arc preferable 
