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although there was ample bloom for a full 

 crop. And as the trees on the outskirt 

 of the township gave their usual supply 

 of apples, the fruit growers willingly 

 acknowledged their mistake, and humbly 

 begged that the bees be brought back 

 again. 



So far I have touched only on the 

 practical, or dollar-and-cent side of 

 this matter. There is another side which 

 we, as bee-keepers, look after so sel- 

 dom that we grow poor, and, to a cer- 

 tain extent ugly, in our " ever-lasting " 

 hustle after that which shall pour mam- 

 mon into the home treasury; and, we go 

 about having continually, a look on our 

 faces which says to every passer by that 

 we consider "Time is Money, " He who 

 sees in the bees, the apple blossoms and 

 the ripened fruit only that which shall 

 put money into his pocket, lives in a poor, 

 half-furnished house. He who obtains 

 from them only what he can sell, gathers 

 but a meager crop. If I find something 

 besides dollars and cents with my bees 

 and on the ap])le trees, shall I not take 

 it? If I find in these tilings more than 

 can be sent to the dining-table or the 

 commission merchant I feel that I have 

 a right to put out my hand to gather it. 

 Such a matter-of-fact tree as the apple 

 makes some attempt to embellish its life 

 with ornament, and in May the bees will 

 prove, to any right thinking person, tl|at 

 joy and happiness may be gotten from its 

 branches. Indeed, apple trees, durii.g 

 each year, are like some people we know. 

 In their young and blossoming days, they 

 are sweet and pink-hued, and then they 

 grow acid, pale and hard; but, in the 

 ripened experience of later life they may 

 become sweet again; and more enchant- 

 ing by their ministering to the calls of 

 humanity. So if any of us have become 

 .acid, pale and hard, in our eager grasp- 

 ing after the "almighty dollar" part, 

 which may come from the bees and the 

 apple trees, let us once more return to 

 the joy and sweetness we had in the 

 springtime of life which may again come 

 into our lives, as the deep richness of 



color comes to the ripened fruit of the 

 apple trees in autumn. If we have al- 

 lowed our grasping disposition to get the 

 better of our inner being, something as 

 apples led to the loss of Paradise, is it not 

 about time that we begin to reconstruct a 

 bit of Eden, by once more listening to 

 that better nature, which will, if we will 

 let it, lead us once more under the blos- 

 som laden boughs, made pleasant with 

 their perfume and the joyful hum of the 

 bees ? Nature might have contented her- 

 self by allowing the apple trees to bear 

 seeds only, but she accompanied such 

 prosaic action with fragrant flowers and 

 delicious fruit. And it would be well for 

 us to remember, in the ordinary courte- 

 sies of life, that our lives may convey 

 some blessing and happiness to those 

 about us. 



Borodino, N. Y. .April 9, 1S9S. 



CHANT.ES l\ I'LAXTS AM) ANIMALS. 



H(»w They are Brought About by Selection and 

 Domestication. 



K. CRANK. 



And ihy youns glories,— leaf, and bud, and 



fliiwnr, 

 ("h.inge comotli over them with every l.onr. 



GALLAGHER. 



/cjrONSIDER- 

 ^^ ING the ten- 

 dency of bees to 

 vary, and the 

 faults of both 

 Italian and black 

 bees as pointed 

 out in previous 

 papers, it will be 

 seen that we have 

 no thoroughbred 

 variety of bees 

 that is altogether satisfactory; unless it 

 might be for some peculiar regions, or 

 localities. It will appear that we need, 

 or, at least / need, a variety that will not 



