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PROPOLIS, OR BEE GLUE. 
This glue is a resin-like substance, obtained by the 
bees from buds and limbs of trees, especially from the 
different kinds of pine, the willow and horse-chestnut ; 
they carry it, like bee-bread, in the little hollow of their 
hindmost legs, to their hive, and it is used to glue or 
seal up every small crevice about the hive. 'Ibis labor 
should be saved the bees, it being sticky and therefore 
difficult for bees to work with ; and as the summer heat 
keeps it soft in the hive, the moth-miller selects it to de- 
posit her eggs, especially if the crevice is not thoroughly 
filled. All cracks, crevices, and corners of a hive 
should be sealed up by pouring in them a mixture mad e 
of three parts resin and one part wax, melted together, 
which remains hard and bids defiance to the moth- 
miller. 
POLLEN. 
Often called farina, but generally known as bee- 
bread. It is the blossom dust of flowers, gathered by 
the bees, moulded to the shape ol a very small, 
flattened ball, and carried in the small hollow of the 
hindmost legs to the hive, where it is used for the pre- 
paration of royal jelly, for the nourishment of the young 
bees, and for mixing with wax used for sealing over the 
brood. But a very small portion is used by the mature 
