PASTURAGE. 



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abundance of honey so bad in taste, as to compel the bee- 

 keepers who have some in their neighborhood to extract it 

 as soon as it is gathered, that it may not injure the quality 

 of their crop. 



Bees also \-isit some of the plants of the grass family, such 



Fig. 185. 



SAINPOIN OR ESPAECET. 



(From Vilmorin-Andrieux.) 



as corn and sorghum. A plant of this family, the Setaria, 

 or bristly foxtail grass, is known in France under the name 

 of accroche-abeilles, (bee-catcher). Its curved hairs grasp 

 the bees' legs, and the poor insects, unable to free themselves, 

 are soon exhausted, and die. 



