108 BEE CULTURE. 
combine ornament with utility. All are worth the little 
trouble they cause. 
PLANTS FOR FIELD AND ROADSIDE. 
Where the apiarist is so situated that a few acres of land 
can be devoted to bee pasturage, we would advise that such 
selections be made with a view to answering the double pur- 
pose of producing honey, and grain or winter forage for stock. 
Although convinced that a handsome profit can be realized 
from land devoted to honey-producing alone, yet all will 
admit that if a remunerative profit can be obtained from its 
Fic. 80.—Sweet Clover Branch and Bloom. 
cultivation for honey, and any other return be derived from 
the crop, it is an additional net profit, less the cost of har- 
vesting and marketing. 
There are, however, many bee-keepers whose grounds are 
very limited, but in whose immediate vicinity are lanes and 
alleys but little used, or waste commons and worn-out fields, 
which, with little labor and less expense, could be made to 
give profitable employment to an apiary of one-hundred to 
two-hundred colonies, thus becoming spots of beauty and 
sources of revenue, instead of remaining evidences of sloth 
and a public reproach. 
