. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 487 books take them up and answer them, id most cases more fully than they can be answered in a department like this. It Is much better for the begiuner to have all these questions an- swered in bulk in a book, available at any time, and more easily referred to than if scattered in the pages of a bee-paper, and after you've well mastered the contents of any or all of the best text-books, you will still find plenty of things to ask about. The matter of the distance bees will go for stores has been very thoroughly discust,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 487 books take them up and answer them, id most cases more fully than they can be answered in a department like this. It Is much better for the begiuner to have all these questions an- swered in bulk in a book, available at any time, and more easily referred to than if scattered in the pages of a bee-paper, and after you've well mastered the contents of any or all of the best text-books, you will still find plenty of things to ask about. The matter of the distance bees will go for stores has been very thoroughly discust, and it would be space wasted to have much room taken up with its discussion ; but that you may cot have to wait till you get your bee-book, I'll say that there are some differences of opinion as to the distance bees will go to gather stores. Some think that bees will go from choice three miles or more. Some think they do not often go more than IK or two miles. There are cases on record in which bees have been known to go seven miles under favorable cir- cumstances. So you see there is some chance for difference of opinion, and while the matter has been fully discust in the past, it is quite possible you may gel some new light, and any facts that may come to your knowledge as helping to settle the question will be gladly welcomed. If you consult the act- ual practice of those who have out-apiaries, you will probably find that they are pretty well content to have their apiaries three or four miles apart, in which case they seem to think that bees do not work generally much more than two or three miles from their hives. Looking at a text-book, I find that the question of shade and ventilation (it's hardly a "burning question," rather a cooling one), occupies as much as perhaps two pages like this. I may say in a nutshell that If you have trees for shade, you have the very best kind. If you have no trees, and must have shade without time to grow anything, one of the ways
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