PART IV.— BEES IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURE. 



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Are Beea Treapaaaers ? . . . . 71 



Beneficial Influence of Beea ou Agri- 

 culture . . . . . . 71 



Can Beea harm the Soil or the Cropa ? . . 73 

 Saccharine Matter of Plpnta not de- 

 rived from the Soil . . . . 73 



Nectar of Planta intended to attract 

 Inaeota . . . . . . 74 



Question aa to Grazing Stock . . 77 



Quantity of Honey furnished by Pas- 

 ture-laud . . . . . . 77 



Beekeeping as a Branch of Farming . . 79 



PLATES. 



Frontispiece — Isaac Hopkins, Government Apiculturist. 

 Plate II — Frame Hive constructed from Kerosene-case. 



III — Hedge of Tagasaste. 



IV — An Overcrowded Apiary. 



V — Model Apiary, Government Experimental Farm, Ruakura. 

 Va and Vb — Queen-rearing Api.-iry, Government Experimental Farm, Waereiiga. 

 VI — Extracting-room, Honey-houae. 



VII — Fumigating-room, Honey-house. 



VIII to XII —Handling Bees. 



XIII — Comb ahowing Drone-cells. 



XIV — Worker-comb. 



XV — Cheese-press converted into Honey-press. 

 XVI. — Solar Wax-extractor. 

 XVII. — Comb infested with Foul-brood. 

 XVIII.— Portion of Diseased Comb ; natural size. 

 XIX. — Comb attacked by Larger Wax-moth. 



