THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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' November 1, 1908 
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Profitable Work for the Home. 
Just what is wanted. 
If you have spare time, YOU CAN 
EARN MONEY 1N YOUR HOMER. 
A new industry for Australian Ladies. 
Real Lace making made easy with our Scientific System already worked out in 
patterns, simple, easy, quick, and inexpensive. 
If you live in the country write for particulars 
If convenient to town call and see us at our offices, 
No. 7 Colonial Mutual Chambers, 
116 KING WILLIAM STREET, ADELAIDE 
CE * MERCANTILE ACENCY, 
Function Of Bees In Fruit 
Raising. 
In my earlier days, when I was as 
much an enthusiastic horticulturist as an 
apiarist (says E. Kretchmer, in the 
‘Canadian Farmer’), I conducted many 
experiments and made many observations 
I found that during the blooming of fruit 
trees, should the weather be too cool to 
permit bees flying, an imperfect’crop was 
the result. Believing that the cool days 
might be the cause of the imperfect fruit 
rather than the absence of the bees, I 
investigated alittle further in the suc- 
ceeding years, when it was pleasant 
weather for the bees to visit the flowers, 
by covering certain parts of blooming 
trees with wire cloth or netting to 
exclude the bees, yet to admit the free 
access ofall pollen carried by the winds, 
and in every instance the limbs and trees 
thus covered produced either no fruit or 
only afew imperfect specimens. After 
repeated experiments, it is my candid 
“opinion that without bees our fruit crops 
would be reduced fully 90 per cent. Not 
only is this true of the fruit of the orchard 
but likewise of berries 
vegetables. 
and certain 
As an example, let me cite 
. stormy 
m TEACHES YOU TO MAKE LACE IN TWO DAYS. 
you personal instruction. 
We want 1,000 Ladies, young and old, 
pay from 7/- dozen to 360/- per dozen yards. 
We givo 
to take up our system to 
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the case of Senator Smink, of Rocky 
Ford, Col., who raises melons in fields 
miles in length. Years ago he was afraid 
of even the hum of a bee. His melons 
were then raised in several separate fields 
one of which was in reach of the bees of 
a neighbour, with whom he had several 
saying the bees 
carried away all the substance from the 
blossom, and acrop failure would be the 
result. But, to the surprise of all, that 
particular field yielded over 200 per cent 
more and far better mellons than any 
other field. ‘To-day he owns over 1,500 
colonies of bees, and during the trans- 
Mississipi exposition he remarkefl that 
he weuld keep those bees if he did no, 
get a peund of honey, for no bees means 
no melons. The idea that the bees carry 
arguments, 
“away the substance from fiowers was 
_ believed by an owner of an orchard near 
Frind, Neb., and to prevent it he sprayed 
during the blooming of the trees. with 
paris green, thus killing every bee that 
alighted ona blossom. It was effectual 
in preventing the bees from carrying 
away the substance from the apple bloom 
_ and it was just as effectual in depriving 
him of a crop of apples, while his neigh- 
bours- had an abundance, 
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His Excellency 
By Appointment At The Earl of 
Kintore, 
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