Report of the Commissioners . NSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. devours some corn. I do not tliink tliat the robin eats any considerable number of in-sects during the fruit season. I tliiuk the robin has four broods in the year, and theyoung are as lively in going for the fruit as the old. J never saw robins eating insects,though I have seen them carrying the common earth worm after rain. I dont thinkthey eat caterpillars. The robin is very destructive to some varieties of pears, and he isvery fond of strawberries. The woodpecktir feeds on lar\ie, but I think he does harm bythe holes he picks in
Report of the Commissioners . NSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. devours some corn. I do not tliink tliat the robin eats any considerable number of in-sects during the fruit season. I tliiuk the robin has four broods in the year, and theyoung are as lively in going for the fruit as the old. J never saw robins eating insects,though I have seen them carrying the common earth worm after rain. I dont thinkthey eat caterpillars. The robin is very destructive to some varieties of pears, and he isvery fond of strawberries. The woodpecktir feeds on lar\ie, but I think he does harm bythe holes he picks in the bark. MK. J. HAG AM AN, Oakvillk, Oounty of Halton. I never fountl the robin to attack grapes ; we have plenty of robins around us. MR. \V. S. CHAPLIN, Newcastle, County op Durham. The robin and cedar bird are very destructive to the small fruits, an<l tlie wood-pecker is also troublesome. I :trftct« from Evidence ONTAEIO AGKICULTUKAL COMMISSION. APPENDIX P. EVIIDEZSrOS RELATING TO BEE FARMING. -i i- THE BEE 4^ (Galleria Cereana. ONTAEIO AGEICULTUEAL COMMISSION. APPENDIX F. ElVIIDElsrCE3 RELATING TO BEE FARMING. Sitting to take oral evidence, held at Toronto, June 22nd, 1880. Present— (Chairman), Hon. S. C. Wood, and Messrs. Gibson, Dymond, Wiser, ,Ballantyne, , T. Stock, W. Whitelaw, J. P. McMillan, A. Wilson antiE. Byrne. MP. D. A. JONESS EVIDENCE. D. A Jones, of Beeton, county of Simcoe, was called and examined. Italian and Cyprian Bees. To Mr. Dymond.—I have been for some time engaged in bee farming. I keep from400 to 600 stocks (colonies) of bees. I originally kept black bees. I afterwards im-ported Italian bees from Italy. Last winter I went to the Island of Cyprus, andimported from thence some Cyprian bees; I also went to Palestine, where I found a raceof bees that I never had heard of before. The reason I went to get some Cyprian beeswas this. A Count in Austria had imported two colonies from Cyprus into Bohemia,and these proved
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