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enemy returns to the charge, they soon learn how to settle it, and 

 then invariably give the bee a second grip before it can leave the 

 ground. 



While borage, melilot clover, and other plants may not be 

 suitable for cattle, my own experience goes far to show that 

 chickens can be brought up at little expense where they have 

 admission to a large area of such plants, which throw suitable 

 seed. Borage especially is very valuable, giving a constant supply 

 for several months. Old birds must not have the run of the 

 plants or they will pick off the bloom and cause waste by treading 

 down the plants before they get a good growth. 



Sunflowers cannot be considered suitable for bees, judging by 

 half-an-acre grown as a test near one hundred colonies, when 

 with fine weather the flowers were almost entirely neglected. 

 Nothing else of importance was in reach of the bees at the time. 

 The same area of melilot clover, in the same place, the following 

 year, simply roared with bees. 



The best show card I have been 

 able to find for the retailer is an 

 Observatory Hive, placed in the shop 

 window. A single comb with bees 

 and queen has proved to be a very 

 great attraction, introducing new 

 customers in quite an unlooked-for 

 manner. 



We know how distressing it is to see the usual observatory 

 hives at bee exhibitions, with the insufficient ventilation and 

 numbers of dead bees, resulting from overcrowding, but we want 

 our bees to remain confined quite three weeks in good order, as it 

 would be out of the question changing them every few days. I 



