BEE CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE; SHOWING THE MUTUAL INTERESTS OF BEEKEEPER, FRUITGROWER. AND FARMER. Outsido of tho beekeeping world it i 9 not generally known nor even understood that honey-bees were created, not so much for the purpose of furnishing the delicious honey for mankind, as for carrying pollen graiti3 from one flower to another, so that these may bear fruit and seeds. The pollen is gathered by the bees from the flowers, and carried to the hives in little brightcoloured pellets on their hind legs, which many persons suppose is £he wax. from
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Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 12
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93Page 12 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 12
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