. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. line 12, 1 (02 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 381 from them surpusf^ofi any I have seon, In flavor and uolor, boin^; as nearly puru wdlto as it is p(>s8il)l(! to bo, I tliink. Owin^^ to tlie liry weatlior last fall, arhl then! iHiint; no clovor lieUls, tbo fall How wiis llt,^!it, but H(t far thu spring: has beisn voi'y favoraiib^ indetiil. I hav« taken otT sevoral sections of nli*e honey, with tho best How yet to follow from sourwood. (iEO. W. l*AHKEll. Morgan Co., Ala., May 2S. EEPOM boiled]' ^^^^*™^ Honey for Horses, Molasses ie very iiiiu'li used f
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. line 12, 1 (02 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 381 from them surpusf^ofi any I have seon, In flavor and uolor, boin^; as nearly puru wdlto as it is p(>s8il)l(! to bo, I tliink. Owin^^ to tlie liry weatlior last fall, arhl then! iHiint; no clovor lieUls, tbo fall How wiis llt,^!it, but H(t far thu spring: has beisn voi'y favoraiib^ indetiil. I hav« taken otT sevoral sections of nli*e honey, with tho best How yet to follow from sourwood. (iEO. W. l*AHKEll. Morgan Co., Ala., May 2S. EEPOM boiled]' ^^^^*™^ Honey for Horses, Molasses ie very iiiiu'li used for mixiiit; with food for stock, and I don't see why our in- ferior i;rades of honey may not l)e i|uite, if not more, beneficial. One thiag: I aceidentally noticed during the past season was that a horse can heoome very fond of honey. I ex- tracted my WyBuleii^h apiary in a tent, and when I finished and had the honey tinned and removed I removed the tent, but through ?want of cartage-room I had to leave the cap- pings, covereil up, for another trip. During the night my horse, which is mischievously in- clined, and does not stop at opening a gate, removed the cover and helped himself. I fastened the box, but the following night he again helped himself by upsetting everything and scattering the cappings all over the yard. ><'eedless to say the bees started working on the caps. That did not interfere with the horse—he rolled the lumps of caps to one side to disturb the bees, and finished the spilt caps during the day. Altogether about 30 pounds of cappings were eaten by him in the two nights. Here is the point: That horse was troubled with an itchy skin, and was con- tinually tearing the hair off his head, tail, aud body, by rubbing on sharp projections. A few days afterwards he got all right and ceased to scratch the hair off. I believe the honey was the cause of the cure, though the ?wax may have had something to do with it. If honey was the cause, could not our in- f
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