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ANALYSIS OP POLLEN. 



Appended is a table of analysis prepared by Dr. 

 Cherry, late Director of Agriculture, Victoria. 



The outstanding feature is the variation in the nitro- 

 genous content of the pollen from various indigenous 

 trees. (For further information regarding pollen 

 yielding plants look up Eucalypts, etc., under "Honey 

 Plants," page 226.) 



GENERAL SUMMER WORK. 



WORKING OUT-YARDS. 



Many apiarists find the practice of having bees 

 distributed through a number of yards is one that can be 

 successful only in the hands of a "born bee-keeper." If 

 one cannot manage say, from 50 to 100 colonies in the 

 home yard, it is wanton folly to attempt the working of 

 out-yards miles distant from home. Out-yards should 

 not be closer than four miles, the further apart the better 

 the returns. In setting out bee-yards, it must be borne in 

 mind that bees in the home yard will be able to work a 

 two-mile radius. To have a yard situated four miles 

 distant, would very probably lead to overlapping. 



