BEE CULTURE, 103 
BEE PASTURAGE A NECESSITY. 
As civilization, with its improved and perfected machinery, 
clears away the forest trees and upturns the prairie sods, it 
is year by year lessening the productive honey field for the 
bees, and gives rise to the frequent remark that bees in cer- 
Fig. 76.—Honey Locust Tree. 
tain localities do not prove so profitable as in years gone by. 
In many instances the honey yield is not so heavy, and the 
loss in wintering about consumes the profits ; especially is 
the latter the case where bee-keepers have kept apace with 
