. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July U, 1916.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 211 longeth old age. It is a sovereign medica- ment. It produces hair in baldness. It cures wounds and ulcers. It assists teeth- ing. The virtues of honey were described as transcendental, while mead was con- sidered as a " sovereign " remedy, the best in the world for prolonging life. M. HELPING THE BEES FKOM THE CITY LOTS. By Felix , Hearne Ave.,AvondGle, Cincinnati, 0. Possibly the suggestion may be an old one to you, but we have chanced on it only once, and there not alone did it
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July U, 1916.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 211 longeth old age. It is a sovereign medica- ment. It produces hair in baldness. It cures wounds and ulcers. It assists teeth- ing. The virtues of honey were described as transcendental, while mead was con- sidered as a " sovereign " remedy, the best in the world for prolonging life. M. HELPING THE BEES FKOM THE CITY LOTS. By Felix , Hearne Ave.,AvondGle, Cincinnati, 0. Possibly the suggestion may be an old one to you, but we have chanced on it only once, and there not alone did it redound quick access to these suburbs, is only, a quarter-century old. As a result there are still innumerable vacant lots, fields, and so on, on these hill slopes and the hill tops, and in places where the public fancy has not yet taken hold, there are entire sum- mits standing bare. The demand for timber in the good old ante-bellum days for firewood, leading to fagoting so close to town here, has de- nuded most of these fields of the forest primeval long since, and rain and weather generally have reduced them to the usual state of city lots. Nevertheless, they sup- port a good verdure indeed, and the crop of weeds which will thrive on them is one any botanist would be proud of. Taking this into account, the apiarist of the story made some slight investigation. A CITY BACK YARD APIARY, many fold to the good of the originator, but served to help the movement for the city beautiful, to say nothing of the improve- ment of the neighbourhood, in suchwise as to evoke the praises of all parties con- cerned. Cincinnati, as the reader will probably remember, is a city whose business district hugs the Ohio, while behind the outer reaches of the stores and the tenements of the day labourers there rise and circle a chain of hills, upon which, in turn, the people of greater means make their homes. It is an endlessly long chain of hills this, a great semi-circle that goes from end to
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