56 BEE-KEEPING FOR PROFIT 
that it is impossible to extract or strain it by 
the ordinary methods. As a rule it is usually 
pressed from the combs. 
Pollen.—The bee uses pollen for a variety 
of purposes—for feeding the pupe, as food 
for the older bees when honey is scarce or 
the stores diminishing, and for mixing with 
wax to seal the brood cells. ‘‘ Bee-bread”’ 
is therefore a good name for it, although 
primarily its purpose is not to serve the bees 
at all. 
Of an infinite variety of colour and flavour— 
each flower produces its own variety in both 
particulars—the pollen gathered by the bees 
is stored in the hive strictly with its own kind. 
It has been found that a bee visiting, say, 
clover, does not touch another kind of flower 
on that ‘‘round,’’ and so on. And each 
section of the workers store their particular 
pollen in particular cells. 
The young worker bee is usually well 
covered with hairs which serve to gather up 
the pollen from the flowers visited. Leaving 
a flower powdered over with it she scrapes it 
from her body into the pollen baskets on 
the thighs of her hind pair of legs. Discharged 
at the hive, the pollen is kneaded by the 
jaws and head and stored in the cells, where 
