54 A Modern Bee- Farm 



Fruit growers often complain that the bees damage their crops, 

 and in autumn, when there is nothing else to be obtained, because 

 they see a few bees among the wasps and flies, the former get all 

 the blame ; whereas they have never been known to break through 

 the skin of sound ripe fruit, but simply lick up the moisture that 

 may be present where birds, wasps or other insects have first 

 made an inroad. 



