Show BEST arrangement OF THE BEEHIVES when placed too TOD close together insects are killed getting into wrong ent entrances ran ces 1 it itis is la strange what a difference of opinion there Is concerning so simple a matter as the arrangement of 0 hives some ome beekeepers bee keepers place them not more than six inches apart our own experience to is that five feet is not too far we have repeatedly noticed jat when hives are placed so close together large numbers of bees are killed when the returning swarm enters in considerable numbers the neighboring hives says a writer in wisconsin agriculturist and then too there are losses of queens when fertilization takes place and last and costim most important of all it if there is foul brood in the apiary it will spread through the agency of the young bees particularly on windy days when these youngsters which are always accepted are blown away from their own to other entrances if you must place hives so close together face the first south and the next to the north facing to the north will not bo be injurious to the bees as so many imagine in the above we have overlooked one thing viz that when hives are placed so close together young queens returning from their wedding flights get into the wrong entrances and are killed |