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may be made warm, and it will be found cheaper to use 

 the paper than to supply food to keep the animal heat 

 up to a comfortable point. 



BEES. 



There is no more interesting living thing than the 

 honeybee. It is possessed of wonderful intelligence and 

 skill, producing large quantities of honey with little or 

 no expense to the owner, and at the same time aiding 



FIG. 90 A Modern Apiary. Note the Terraces and Open Ditches 

 to Ensure Perfect Drainage ; also the Shelter of Grove in 

 Background. 



in the more perfect fertilization of the flowers of all our 

 fruit and ornamental trees and plants. As much as 

 one hundred and sixty pounds of choice honey has been 

 produced by one colony of bees in a single season. 



Bees occupy but a small space and require no expen- 

 sive house to live in. In most large apiaries the hives 

 are placed in the open and only a few inches from the 

 ground . (Fig. 90). Here the bees that come in laden 

 with honey or pollen if they fail to alight on the board in 

 front of the hive can crawl up and reach the hive and 

 deposit their load. The ground, too, is warmer than the 



