. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 164 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. November But at the writing of my other letter the bees worked a lot on poplar but it didn't last long, and after this the bees gathered a large supply from some unknown source, but alas we found this white honey to be poison. No one can tell just by looking wheth- er it is poison or not, but by its taste, as it is very bitter. It seems that none can tell from what source the bees make this. Could not some reader of this paper throw some light on this subject ? The bees stored some honey from basswood, locust and persi
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 164 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. November But at the writing of my other letter the bees worked a lot on poplar but it didn't last long, and after this the bees gathered a large supply from some unknown source, but alas we found this white honey to be poison. No one can tell just by looking wheth- er it is poison or not, but by its taste, as it is very bitter. It seems that none can tell from what source the bees make this. Could not some reader of this paper throw some light on this subject ? The bees stored some honey from basswood, locust and persimmon. Sourwood was the richest this year than for many seasons past. Some even say that the honey was sweeter also. The bees worked a great deal on astors and golden rod and other fall flowers. The most honey ever stored by one colony in a single season in this part of the country, was made this year by a colony of blacks belonging to Mr. M. G. Shearer which was 75 lbs. comb honey. So we didn't have exactly a failure, al- though poplar and poison honey had a tendency to discourage us. Another remarkable thing was that the bees in this secton didn't swarm as usual. Several who have large num- bers of bees secured no swarms, while an apiarist with about 25 colonies had too many both for the prosperity of himself and bees. His bees must have had the swarming fever as they would swarm although they had plenty of room. Well, as Jack Frost has been to see us we begin to make plans for winter. I intend to try Mr. Chas. H. Thies's plan as described in Oct. number of the "Am. Bee ; It doesn't look as if we should need anything be- sides a dove-tailed singled walled hive. But experience will tell. So for fear of taking too much space in your valuable paper, I will close. Globe, N. C. , Oct. 25, W. T. Falconer Manf'g Co.— Dear Sirs:—I wish to give my exper- ience with my bees this year. In the fall I built a bee shed for them and back of aud between the hives I
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