The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . past season. Although visitedby the bees for several months, at all hoursin the day, it has not compared at all withthe Simpson honey-plant. A small patch inthe garden, on very rich soil, did very muchbetter. 1WIILK1VEED(;.s Comuti). Thisplant is celebrated, not for the lioney it pro-duces, although
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . past season. Although visitedby the bees for several months, at all hoursin the day, it has not compared at all withthe Simpson honey-plant. A small patch inthe garden, on very rich soil, did very muchbetter. 1WIILK1VEED(;.s Comuti). Thisplant is celebrated, not for the lioney it pro-duces, although it doubtless furnishes agood supply, but for its (lueer, winged mass-es of pollen, which attach themselves to thebees feet, and cause him to become a crip-ple, if not to lose his life. Every fall, wehave many iiujuiries from new subscribers,in regard to this (jueer i)lienomenon. Somethink it a parasite, others a protuberaiUM growing on the bees foot, and others awinged insect-enemy of the bee. We givebelow an engraving of the curiosity, magni-fied at o ,• and also of a mass of them attachedto the foot of a bee. It is the same that Prof. Riley alluded to,when he recommended that the milkweedbe planted to kill off the bees when they be-come troublesome to the fruit-grower. The. (POLLEN OF THE MILKAVEJED, ATTACHED TOA bees FOOT. folly of such advice—think of the labor andexpense of starting a plantation of uselessweeds just to entrap honey-bees—becomesmore apparent when we learn that it is per-haps only the old and enfeebled bees thatare unable to free themselves from these ap-pendages, and hence the milkweed canscarcely be called an enemy. The append-age, it will be observed, looks like a pair ofwings, and they attach themselves to the beeby a glutinous matter which quickly hard-ens, so that it is quite difficult to remove, ifnot done when it is first attached. IWEOTZXZUl^XrOILT {Leomirus Cardi-uca.) Quite a number of the bee-folks in-sist that motherwort is superior, as a
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