76 A Modern Bee-Farm 
Where a bee-owner, adopting the pursuit as an im- 
portant addition to his income, expects to make the 
best of his surroundings, he can only ensure the highest 
success as a honey producer, if he has sufficient land to 
enable him to grow large clover and other crops in the 
immediate vicinity of his apiary. 
CHAPTER VII. 
PLANTING FOR BEE-PASTURAGE, 
AND INCREASED PROFITS. 
N many localities the honey harvest is over by July; 
¢ but on the South Downs throughout August the 
Dwarf Thistles in myriads keep the bees busy ; 
while in the valleys lying between the hills, the second 
crops of Sanfoin are often of great value early in the 
same month. On the moors and hill sides of the North 
the heather helps the bees during August and early 
September. 
In many parts of America heavy yields of honey are 
secured in Autumn from wild flowers; while in tropical 
and semi-tropical localities bees will often gather “some 
honey all the year round. 
Nine years out of ten we have a fine Autumn spell in 
the South of England after the usual flowers have 
succumbed ; and the bees having nothing better to do, 
are in too many cases on the alert for the least chance 
to rob a neighbouring hive. 
How often has the bee-keeper wished that such fine 
weather, so enjoyable a period, could be made a time of 
busy labour to his now idle thousands, so that they might 
take to the more pleasant paths of industry and good 
