whom city life and an indoor occupation do not agree, and 

 who either do not possess the physical strenj:(th or the inclina- 

 tion to engage in some other more monotonous and laborious 

 rural occupation." Th'* l)ulletin lias the merit of being well 

 illustrated, so tliat one can hardly misunderstand the in- 

 formation it is desired to impart. The author remarks that 

 AustraUa has such a splendid honey-producing flora that if 

 bee-keepers will only go to it tliere is no need whatever to 

 raise plants specially for honey. In Victoria only a fraction 

 of the nectar produced annually by our native flora is at 

 present being gathered by bees. This portion of the subject 

 is now being dealt with in a series of articles by Mr. Beuhne 

 in the Journal of Agriculture, and when completed will likewise 

 be issued in book form. It is curious, however, that one of 

 our .prettiest spring-flowering shrubs, the ^lanuka, Lcptospermmn 

 scoparium, yields a very poor grade of honey, fit only for 

 manufacturing purposes, and country where much of this shrub 

 exists should be avoided by bee -farmers. The value of bees 

 to the orchardist, he says, can hardly be o\'er-estimated, and 

 successful orchard practice will never result until the work of 

 the bee is recognized practically by the establishment or the 

 temporary locating of bee colonies in or near every orchard. 

 From the statements contained in the work under notice it 

 seems that bee -culture should be a suitable occupation for 

 many of our returned partially incapacitated soldiers, and as 

 the uses of honey are extending every year there seems no 

 reason why many of them should not lead happy and contented 

 lives on their own bee-farms. 



Were Extinct Animals Warlike ?— Such is the title of an 

 interesting article in the Age (Melbourne) of Saturday, ist July. 

 The author, " Petrophilus," says his remarks are prompted by 

 the fact that, the American peace party has been using a papier- 

 mache model of a formidable member of the extinct group of 

 the Deinosaurus to illustrate its argument that the peace-loving 

 nations of the world are being crushed by a juggernaut policy 

 of might and oppression. He pictures what might have been 

 the habits of one of these ten-ton monsters, and thinks that 

 the formidable horns, bony frills, and other seemingly terrible 

 weapons with which they were provided were simply for adorn- 

 ment, and if for use were used only during times of courtship, 

 and not as a means of overpowering and crushing members 

 of other groups of the times in which they lived. He considers 

 that reasons for their extinction can be found in the numerous 

 physical changes which have occurred to this earth of ours in 

 the many millions of years it has been in existence. 



