. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. of honey are stored from cotton, and that the honey glands of cotton are mostly out- side the corolls instead of inside. Yet our southern friends would buzz about Mr. Dag- gitt's ears had he power to prevent their pro- duct from being sold as honey. The cow pea of the south goes farther, and has its honey glands on nodes scattered all along the stem. What shall we do for our brethren who have cow pea honey to sell ? Again, vegetable tissues not originally intended to secrete sugar often take that action by reason of wounds. Occas
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. of honey are stored from cotton, and that the honey glands of cotton are mostly out- side the corolls instead of inside. Yet our southern friends would buzz about Mr. Dag- gitt's ears had he power to prevent their pro- duct from being sold as honey. The cow pea of the south goes farther, and has its honey glands on nodes scattered all along the stem. What shall we do for our brethren who have cow pea honey to sell ? Again, vegetable tissues not originally intended to secrete sugar often take that action by reason of wounds. Occasionally the stubble from which grain is cut, instead of dying, goes to work and secretes immense quantities of sweet. When soil and air are moist, and all circumstances favorable, wounds caused by insects, and especially those curious growths resembling fruits which insect wounds give rise to, put out nectar. It may transpire yet that half the honey credited to insects is only provoked by them, not secreted. Freezing and thawing also wounds leaf tissue enough to make it take this altered action some- times, and the forest goes into the syrup business by the square mile, if I am not mis- informed. Bees pay no heed to our quillets of In time? of scarcity they gather what they can. In times of abund- ance they discriminate by quality, them- selves being judges. And in many if not most cases we cannot assort their produc- tion except by quality. As for the minor points friend Daggitt makes, oleomargarine disgusts us because we cannot get rid of the idea that it had an unclean origin. This would not be the case with sugar-honey. The Wiley yarn took and ran in the newspapers like wildfire because people like to hear that somebody, especially a rogue, has accomplished something sup- posed to be impossible. Sugar-honey will lack that appetizing character. We shall soon find out what the newspapers will do ; but I will risk the prediction that they will pay very little atte
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