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more food, besides decreasing very much in num- 
ber. Bees, when exposed, frequently issue from 
the hive in great numbers, during a sunny day in 
winter, with the earth clad with snow. Every 
bee that chances to alight upon snow, is sure to 
find a cold grave — being immediately chilled, and 
therefore unable to return to the hive. Those 
bees that return to the hive, enter with an increased 
appetite, devouring more honey in one hour, than 
they would have done in one week, had they re- 
mained inactive. 
White clover affords the best field pasturage for 
bees, and it may serve the agriculturist a double 
purpose, as it affords the richest pasture for fatten- 
ing cattle, and may with profit be extensively cul- 
tivated. Buckwheat should be cultivated by every 
apiarian suitably situated. It may be cultivated 
to the greatest profit the last part of the season, 
and it very happily takes the place of white clover. 
The honey extracted from buckwheat is not so 
rich and delicate as that from the white clover ; 
but it answers a very good purpose for the bees to 
winter on, and is furnished in great abundance. 
Waldridge, a German writer, states that he saw 
forty large bee-hives filled with honey, to the 
amount of seventy pounds each, in one fortnight, 
by their being placed near a large field of buck- 
wheat in flower. 
BEST METHOD OF DESTROYING OR PREVENTING 
THE RAVAGES OF THE BEE MOTH. 
The true bee moth is a native of Europe, but 
has been transplanted and naturalized in this coun- 
try. It has been known to exist in this country 
about sixty years, and it is supposed by some to 
