OPPORTUNITIES. 



A TASTE OF ANIMATED NATURE. 



But the school garden will often give an opportunity 

 to introduce new animals whose breeding will be an 

 advantage. In many places the raising of silk worms 

 and of the oak-spinner (a spider) can be introduced. 

 (Pastor Liha at Lukow, in Moravia, earned in 1869 not 

 less than 800 florins by raising oak-spinners.) 



In many countries, and in many parts of all countries, 

 a rich revenue may easily be gained by the raising of 

 bees. The bee industry has deteriorated in many 

 countries where it formerly flourished in the Zips of 

 Hungary, for instance and yet the demand for wax is 

 such that much has to be imported into Austria. Sugar, 

 which has supplanted honey for the table as a sweetener 

 in all countries but Hungary, does not make so pleas- 

 ant or so healthy an article of nourishment. The pre- 

 judice of many countries in regard to the supposed 

 impossibility of introducing bee culture, throws it spe- 

 cially into school gardens. Bee pasturage is by no 

 means impossible by its limited culture on the plains, 

 and it is even practicable in mountain regions, or in- 

 deed not so difficult. Lindens, acacias, fruit trees, chest- 

 nuts, will in future be cultivated in every village. For 

 the fruitful plains grow maize, and the bee-nourishing 

 clovers. For these, particularly the white clover, are 

 abundant, and bring much revenue. Hazel bushes, nut 

 trees, whortleberries, Norway maple, willows that stand 

 half way in the water, sunflowers, which find so many 

 uses and are such excellent disinfectants of unhealthy 

 regions, offer fine bee pasturage, and one of the most 

 striking but not well known fodder plants for bees (I 

 mean mignonette), blooms the whole year round. Let 



