The New England farmer . ay we know are not so; butit seems to me to be too late in the day forany one to maintain that honey is manufac-tured by the bees. As for their making honeyfrom molasses, I will not say I knoio theynever will, but I do know 1 never could in-duce them to use a particle of it, and 1 havetried numerous experiments with it. Thefoundation for the belief that they ever use it,probably lies in the fact that the bees willgather the sugar settled in the bottom of mo-lasses casks, but observation will show that itis only the sugar. I never could detect themcarrying off one drop
The New England farmer . ay we know are not so; butit seems to me to be too late in the day forany one to maintain that honey is manufac-tured by the bees. As for their making honeyfrom molasses, I will not say I knoio theynever will, but I do know 1 never could in-duce them to use a particle of it, and 1 havetried numerous experiments with it. Thefoundation for the belief that they ever use it,probably lies in the fact that the bees willgather the sugar settled in the bottom of mo-lasses casks, but observation will show that itis only the sugar. I never could detect themcarrying off one drop of liquid molasses. Likewise, I have satisfied myself that beesseldom visit more than one kind of blossomduring one excursion ; have known is no evidence, however, that, as ismaintained by some, they are particular aboutstoring each kind of honey by itself in thehive. One may discover cells of clover honey,discolored by buckwheat, which is neitherpure clover or buckwheat.—M. Quinby, inRural New
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