MAY 15. mi; 



!lir tVrtilizatioii o\' llicso l)Ios.-^()iiis. Tlioy 

 made a siooil jol) ol' it. 



How (lo we know? Because, as (he season 

 drew near its elose, every blossom that had 

 not been frosted grew a berry. There were 

 none of the small hard knots often seen 

 toward the elose of the harvest. 



TTow mueli do you think those bees were 

 worth to us on that crop of berries? We 

 place it at hundreds of dollais. but this is 

 only an estimate. 



One thinji' we are sure of. and that is liiat 

 it pays well to have a good ciop of berries 

 in a vcai" wlien tliev are scarce, and hiyh in 



price. We know the bees were largely re- 

 sponsible lor this. 



We had iiioic than half these berries 

 picked before it beyaii (o dawn on us that 

 we w-ere going to have a crop. We had 

 been sure the frost had fixed them. The 

 sooner that fruit-growers find out the ben- 

 efit that our little friends are to them, the 

 sooner they will catch the dollars that are 

 slipping- through their fingers because of 

 imperfect pollination. The profits in bee- 

 keeping are not all to be counted in the 

 number of pounds of honey harvested. 



Central Norton, N. B., Canada. 



BUSY BEES OF BELGIUM 



BV JAilES B. PAIGE 



Tn describing the country traversed by 

 the I'ailroad between Liege, Belgium, and 

 Ai.\-la-Chapelle, Germany, Baedeker in liis 

 " Guide-book of Belgium and Holland '" 

 says: "The country traversed by the line 

 between Liege and the Prussian frontier is 



remarkable for its picturesque scenery, busy 

 manufactories, and i^retty country houses, 

 while the engineering skill displayed in the 

 construction of the line is another object of 

 interest. The picturesque stream which the 

 line crosses so frequently is the Vesdre, and 

 pleasant glimpses of 

 its wooded banks are 

 obtained o n both 

 sides of the train. 

 This is the most 

 beautiful part of the 

 j o u r ne y between 

 England and Ger- 

 many, and should 

 if possible be per- 

 formed by daylight." 

 Having had the 

 pleasure during the 

 past summer of mak- 

 ing the journej' in 

 the reverse order giv- 

 en by Baedeker, that 

 is, from Aix-la-Cha- 

 pelle to Liege, by 

 automobile, over an 

 excellent macadam 

 road that followed 

 the railroad and riv- 

 er the greater pait 

 of the distance of 

 38.9 miles, as regis- 

 tered by the speedo- 

 meter, the writer is 

 in position to state 

 that the author of 

 the guide-book has in 

 no particular exag- 

 gerated in his de- 

 scrijition of the beau- 

 ties of the country. 



il.nri Cliupolle, Belgium. At Tulgic, 5.7 mileS 



