. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March, 1916. American Bee JoarnaJj are covered with water hyacinth which bees visit, but it is not plentiful enough to yield all this honey. About the middle of August a weed called senna blooms and a number of other field plants, and the flow grad- ually increases so that by Sept. 1 a heavy flow develops. By Sept. 10 the goldenrod and horsemint begin to bloom, and these two furnish the nec- tar for the fall flow. There is some Spanish-needle, too. Like the tupelo, the extent of these plants is immense. I saw one field of goldenrod 1000 acres in exten
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March, 1916. American Bee JoarnaJj are covered with water hyacinth which bees visit, but it is not plentiful enough to yield all this honey. About the middle of August a weed called senna blooms and a number of other field plants, and the flow grad- ually increases so that by Sept. 1 a heavy flow develops. By Sept. 10 the goldenrod and horsemint begin to bloom, and these two furnish the nec- tar for the fall flow. There is some Spanish-needle, too. Like the tupelo, the extent of these plants is immense. I saw one field of goldenrod 1000 acres in extent. The yield is wonderful. The bees work just as hard as they do in the spring flow, and as these two sources last a month a big crop can be secured. Unfortunately I was not able to take advantage of it this year owing to ray convalescence from the operation. This is the best table honey to be had anywhere. The horsemint honey is water-white, but the goldenrod col- ors it to a light amber. It has a smooth pleasing flavor and a heavy body. From the opening in the spring until Nov. 1 there is never a day that nectar cannot be secured except rainy days. There is such a multitude of flowers that the flow never stops. Before coming here I was told that ants were very bothersome and would kill colonies in this country, but I find this to be a mistake. There are none of the big black ants common in the Central States. Instead there is a small red ant which occasionally gets into the crevices around a hive and makes a nest. They are harmless, but they have a slightly larger brother red in color that gets under a hive bottom if it is set down flat on the ground and makes a nest. He is a fierce fighter if disturbed and will bite one's hands. As far as I can see he does the bees no harm, and if the hives are blocked up Clematis—Photo by Pierre Odier swamps grow an endless number of different trees, bushes, and plants, the bloom of which is visited by bees. A naturalist would be wild wit
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