. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 426 Gibson Station, Ind., Aug. 18,1S79. Herewith find bloom from plant and a bee that worked on it. The bees work very numerously on it, get their feet fastened, and other bees drag them loose. They go right back in the hive. I think the bees get plenty of honey from it. Please give name in the Journal. Chas. Keller. [This is a species of Asclepius or milk- weed. The bee also sent is loaded with the pollen masses. These saddlebag-like masses are illustrated in Manual, p. 233. Our bees have worked very lively on the milk-weed of late, as from the extre
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 426 Gibson Station, Ind., Aug. 18,1S79. Herewith find bloom from plant and a bee that worked on it. The bees work very numerously on it, get their feet fastened, and other bees drag them loose. They go right back in the hive. I think the bees get plenty of honey from it. Please give name in the Journal. Chas. Keller. [This is a species of Asclepius or milk- weed. The bee also sent is loaded with the pollen masses. These saddlebag-like masses are illustrated in Manual, p. 233. Our bees have worked very lively on the milk-weed of late, as from the extreme drouth most flowers have failed, while the milk-weed on the low lands has continued to bloom.—A. J. Cook.] Carlinville, 111., Aug. 11, 1879.* You can place me in the " blasted hopes " column for this season. "'Tis awful!" We have obtained no honey this season, the weather being so dry that the bees got but little from white clover and linden. We are obliged to feed some colonies now, and all are getting short of stores, with poor pros- Eects for fall honey. We planted a lot of uckwheat, but it has been so dry that but little of it came up, and that little does not grow. I could do but little in queen-breed- ing, the bees robbing the nuclei so badly I was obliged to unite them, and stop trying to rear queens. A few miles north aud south of us bees have gathered some sur- plus honey, but in this vicinity they are starving. Worse than all, I have been ter- rible afflicted all summer—not able to be about more than one-half the time. You see things do not look very bright. Hope you and others of the bee-keeping fraternity may be prospering. J. M. Valentine. Clifton Springs, Fla., Aug. 14, 1879. I inclose you a sprig of a plant that grows here, blooming during the months of Febru- ary and March. The blossoms, which are a pale blue, make their appearance on a cone- shaped burr about an inch in diameter and an inch long. It is located at the end of the stems.
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