go A Modern Bee-Farm 



owners, for their own protection and profit might be 

 persuaded to cover their windows, etc., with woven wire ; 

 but nevertheless there is just one way whereby the bee- 

 keeper can avoid all this trouble and loss of bee-life. Let 



him 



" Feed Solid " 



as soon as he finds no more honey is to be gathered, 



and therefore immediately he can remove the surplus. 



Bees with their combs solid with sealed stores, will have 



no reason to search for injurious sweets. They will sit 



quiet, and not even trouble to rob during that period 



when half-fed or starved stocks are ever on the alert. 



The owner will not only save his bees, while doing his 



duty to his neighbours, but will have his stock in the best 



possible condition for wintering, and rapid progress 



thereafter. 



Fruit Culture 



for the purpose of jam making is now making .such rapid 

 headway in this country, that all growers should have the 

 subject of bee-culture brought very forcibly before their 

 notice. The presence of a few hives in the immediate 

 vicinity of fruit gardens and orchards is not simply a 

 benefit to the grower, but is a matter of the first impor- 

 tance ; and those who wish to secure the nearest approach 

 to constantly recurring profitable crops, will find it an 

 absolute necessity to encourage the presence of the 

 domesticated honey bee. In some instances at least, 

 particularly with farm crops, there is simply the loss of 

 seed where the flowers had escaped fertilisation, but in 

 far too many cases where the blossom is not fully 

 fertilised by the agency of the bees, the fruit is not only 

 imperfectly developed but in many places does not 

 develop at all. In my own experience, which is also- 

 substantiated by other similar reports, it has been re- 



