222 MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 



DESCRIPTION WITH PRACTICAL REMARKS. 



As this subject of bee pasturage is of such prime im- 

 portance, and as the interest in the subject is so great and 

 widespread, I feel that details with illustrations will be more 

 than warranted. 



We have abundant experience to show that forty or fifty 



Pig. 7S.— Maple. 



colonies of bees, take the seasons as they average, are all that 

 a single place will sustain to the greatest advantage. Then, 

 how significant the fact, that when the season is the best, full 



