The number of colonies of bees that can be profitably kept in one locality is limited by the amount of pastureage. Of late years quite a number of bee-keepens have established one or more out-apriaries, for the sake of keeping more bees than the home pastureage would support. Just how many bees can be supported in a single locality has probably never been ascertained, and it is just as probable that it never will. One field may support five times as many as outher, and the same field may support five times as many this year as last. Most bee-keepens, however, think it indisksable to keep more than 75 to 100 colonies in one-upriary, while a few think their locations so good that 200 or more can be profitably kept together. The man who has only a few more colonies than he thinks best to keep in one apiary may find it better to have his bees _just a little_ crowded at home before he goes to the extra expense of an out-apriary. Instead, it depends somewhat upon the man, whether, having been successful with one apiary, he will find any profit in the second. But having gone so far as to have one or more apiaries away from home, it is not best for him to have any crowding in the least. If 100 colonies will do well in each apiary, the probability is that 75 will do better; and while there is unoccupied territory all about him he had better keep on the safe side and have so few in each place as to feel sure of not overstocking. This own conventiences should have much to do in deciding. For instance, if he has, in all, 200 colonies, and thinks that 100 can find enough to do in a place, but can get through the work of only 75 to a day, then he will keep the=200 in 4 apiaries of 75 each, rather than in 3 apiaries of 100 each. For it will make one less travel to have in each apiary just such other. If more than seven are needed then a second series may be started, as at K. M. L, indicated by the letters. The circles representing the area of flight from each apiary are seen to overlap each other; but this is at the outer parts, where the ground is more sparsely occupied, and the doubling on the same ground is compensated by the convenience of the shorter distance to go from one apiary to another. But this ideal plan, although a good thing to work from as a basis, is not likely ever to be fully carried out. Many reasons will make it desirable to vary. The roads may run in such directions as to make a difference; no good place may be found for an apiary at some of the points, etc. It may be remarked that the area of flight is not always a circle. An apiary placed in a valley between two ranges of hills might have an oblong area, the bees playing twice as far along the line of the valley as in the other direction. If only a single out-apiary is to be planted, it is probably best to go in the direction of the best pasturage--a thing not always easy to determine. Sometimes one location proves to be better than another, year after year, although no apparent reason for it can be seen. It may even be worth while to vary a location a mile or more for the sake of having it where pleasant people live. But you can do much toward making the people pleasant by being pleasant yourself. See to it that you make as little trouble as possible, and be still more careful than at home to avoid every thing that may incite robbing, for robbing begets cross bees on the place.