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about its cliffs, cannot but recall to mind the promise, 

 ' With honey out of the stony rock would I have satisfied 

 thee.' There is no epithet of the Land of Promise more 

 true to the letter, even to the present day, than this, 

 that it was ' a land flowing with milk and honey.' " 



The question as to the worth or worthlessness of the 

 above respective varieties is not yet so decided a matter 

 as it is with the Italians. Those interested in the sale 

 of a particular race will praise it up, while those who 

 have had a single disappointment with it will run it 

 down — and that is nearly the sum of the experience to 

 be gathered from current literature. Thus we find 

 Dathe announcing, '' I have discontinued the rearing 

 of Cyprian, Egyptian, and Carniolan bees." That is in- 

 telligible j but in the same paper we read, " Between the 

 German and Heath bees there is no particular differ- 

 ence'' — which so staggers us after Von Berlepsch's 

 vituperations of the latter that we do not know how 

 much confidence we ought to place in the rest of the 

 sentence, which is given as the summing up of a dis- 

 cussion in that famous bee country, Silesia : " The 

 Egyptian bee ranks after the German and Italian; the 

 Carniolan, at the expense of honey, produces many 

 bees; the Cyprians are diligent, but quite inclined to 

 sting. The Herzegovinlan bee is praised. Bees ob- 

 tained by judicious crossing have the preference over 

 the pure races." 



