. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. BEES. 59 BEES AND FRUIT. provident, and starvation comes, they all suffer alike, and, we do believe, without a single bit of hard feeling or censure toward any one. They all work together, just as your right hand assists your left; and if we would understand the economy of the bee- hive, it were well to bear this point innniid. Shortly follow- ing the impulse for pollen-collect- ing, comes that for honey - gathering; and the bee is p
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. BEES. 59 BEES AND FRUIT. provident, and starvation comes, they all suffer alike, and, we do believe, without a single bit of hard feeling or censure toward any one. They all work together, just as your right hand assists your left; and if we would understand the economy of the bee- hive, it were well to bear this point innniid. Shortly follow- ing the impulse for pollen-collect- ing, comes that for honey - gathering; and the bee is probably in its prime as a worker when a month old. At this age it can, like a man of 40, "turn its hand" to almost any do- mestic duties; biit if the hive is well supplied with workers of all ages, it now prob- ably does most ef- fective service in the fields. See Age or Bees. When a colony is formed of young bees entirely ,they will sometimes go out into the fields for pollen when but five or six days old. Also when a colony is formed wholly of adult he placed sound fruit, consisting of grapes, peaches, apricots, and the like, in hives con- taining bees that were brought to the verge of starvation. This fruit was left in the hives day after day, but it was never once molested. Then he tried breaking some of the fruit, and in every rase all such speci-. GRAPES FIRST PUNCTURED BY BIRDS AND DESPOILED BTBEES. bees they can build comb, feed the larvse, construct queen-cells, and perform work generally that is usually done by younger bees; yet it is probably better economy to have bees of all ages in the hive. BliES AIMD FRUIT. Every now and then we hear complaints of how bees will attack and eat up fruit; and to a casual observer, at least, they apparently do bite through the skin, extract the juices, until the specimen is shriveled up to a mere semblance of its former shape and size. Careful investigation has shown repeatedly that bees never attack sound fruit no matter
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