252 AGRICULTURE 



Apple, pear, cherry and plum blossoms are 

 much liked by the bees. 



On the other hand, the trees profit 

 enormously by the visitations of the bees, 

 and orchards in which sufficient bees are 

 kept very often yield quarter or even half 

 as much fruit again, as where the trees 

 have to depend on the chance fertilisation 

 of wind and insects. 



Anyone going in for fruit farming should 

 make a point of having twenty to twenty-five 

 hives for every one or two acres planted, and 

 if he or she does not care to go to the trouble 

 or expense of working them so as to secure 

 a good honey yield, the larger return of 

 perfect fruit will repay him or her for the 

 outlay on the hives. 



Arrangement The hives should be placed from three to 

 six feet apart or farther, where there is the 

 necessary accommodation, with a good path, 

 not less than three feet wide, running at the 

 back. All manipulation of the hive must be 

 done from the back. From the entrance or 



