. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, i-pot^ American "Bee -Journal Canadian Conducted by J. L. BYER. Mount SiiiiiU Vield from Buckwheat. On page 273, I stated that "prospects" were good for a flow of honey from the buckwheat. Unfortunately, dry cold weather ensuing just after that was written, knocked out the yield we were expecting, and we have to be content with a meager 15-pound per colony yield. However, brood-cliambers are crammed full of buckwheat honey, so feeding will not l)e necessary. After all, our surmise was correct in so far as "best late
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, i-pot^ American "Bee -Journal Canadian Conducted by J. L. BYER. Mount SiiiiiU Vield from Buckwheat. On page 273, I stated that "prospects" were good for a flow of honey from the buckwheat. Unfortunately, dry cold weather ensuing just after that was written, knocked out the yield we were expecting, and we have to be content with a meager 15-pound per colony yield. However, brood-cliambers are crammed full of buckwheat honey, so feeding will not l)e necessary. After all, our surmise was correct in so far as "best late flow" in our locality, as our crop from buckwheat, small as it is, is the most we have ever obtaintd from that source. Be it understood that is, is the most we have ever obtained plant has been grown in our section. A Buckwheat Story. Tn connection with buckwheat as a honey-yielder, the writer a few days ago had a hearty laugh over a story told him by a farmer bee-keeper who also raises poultry quite extensively. The first year that buckwheat was sow;n near his place, when the plant came in bloom nicely, a decidedly bad smell was noticed about the'hives in the evenings. Not being acquainted with the peculiar odor of freshly-gathered buckwheat honey, my friend came to the conclu- sion that some of his chickens had died under the hives and were responsible for the trouble. Two or 3 evenings he and his good wife searched among the bees in an effort to find the dead chick- ens that were so offensive, and failing to find them, were at a loss to account for the peculiar and unpleasant situa- tion, for, as they said, "their neighbors were turning up their noses in disgust every time they went past the ; One morning when examining a strong colony, the odor was located without a doubt as coming from the inside of the hive, and lo, the mystery was solved at last. "The bees had foul ; Tliat same day, a well-known bee-keeper happened to be passing, and
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