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profitable, and deserving of every encouragement that can be 

 given to it. 



The climate of Scotland is on the whole favourable to the 

 production of excellent honey. 



The author in support of his opinion mentions among others 

 the following beekeepers: 



Mr. D. M. Macdonald who for years made no profit, but as 

 his knowledge of bees increased, his management of them improved 

 to such an extent that now his profits range from 10 to 20 

 yearly, according to the season. 



Another Banffshire bee-keeper increases his income annually by 

 10 or 50 according to the season, with a general average for 

 more than 20 years of over 25 per annum. 



One who started quite recently increased his hives from four 

 to eight, and moreover secured a surplus of 430 Ib. of honey, 

 which he sold at such a price that he made 12 to the good. 



In many parts of Scotland it is almost a proverb that several 

 stocks of bees are more profitable than a cow and her followers. 



The following figures give the imports of honey from 1901 

 to 1907. 



i9 OT 42 837 



1902 ,,27 126 



1903 3<> 349 



i94 . ? 29 127 



i95 ' 34 763 



1906 ., 33 897 



19? 3 1 9 2 9 



F. W. L. SLADEN. -- Queen-R.earing in England, published at 

 the office of the British Bee Journal, 23 Bedford St. Strand, 

 London, W. C. 



Reviewed in Nature^ vol. 83, p. 496-7, London, June 23, 1910. 



Contains a study of a membrane of the working honey-bee, 

 situated between the 5th and 6th dorsal segment of the insect. 

 This membrane secretes a substance giving a strong pungent odor 

 which attracts other bees. 



W. HERROD. Bees and the Fertilisation of Flowers. Lecture 

 at the Farmers' Club, London, Feb. 28, 1910. Nature, vol. 83, 

 April 14, 1910, p. 199. 



Most plants depend on insects for fertilisation, although in some 

 it is done by the wind. Amongst insects, the whole family of 



