. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 292 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Mav 11, 1899. taste is simply for defense, to disgust above-ground eaters, it would not be surprising- if roots should be free from that taste I've just been out to get a sweet clover root to eat. I find the leaves have the most pungency, the stems somewhat less, the roots still less, but yet not free from the distinctive flavor of the plant. The robts seem to have a sweetness in addition, which probablj- " fetcht '; But if I were a cow I'd be ashamed to kick at either leaves, stems or roots. JOSIE THE HONEV-E.\T
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 292 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Mav 11, 1899. taste is simply for defense, to disgust above-ground eaters, it would not be surprising- if roots should be free from that taste I've just been out to get a sweet clover root to eat. I find the leaves have the most pungency, the stems somewhat less, the roots still less, but yet not free from the distinctive flavor of the plant. The robts seem to have a sweetness in addition, which probablj- " fetcht '; But if I were a cow I'd be ashamed to kick at either leaves, stems or roots. JOSIE THE HONEV-E.\TER—HE OR SHE ? That 13-year-old Josie, on page 222, who oft eats a pound of honey just for appetite's sake—is Josie a boj' Josie or a girl Josie—that's what I want to know ? HONEY IN PRESERVING FRUIT. Bevins' trials of honey for preserving fruit (page 221) seem to show that it will work in the stj-le of extra-sweet pickles, but not alone on raw fruit. I made some grape- jelly with honey last fall—damaged the honey, without benefiting the grape-juice to any great extent. FRUIT-BLOSSOMS AND BEES. I protest (with due modesty, of course) against the first editorial quotation on page 217. It's an ancient chestnut to begin with—and, to end with, all bee-folks ought to know that putting a hive of bees right under a tree does not secure its flowers any more bee-visits than if the hive was a quarter of a mile away. Field-bees rather prefer to fly a short distance. What kept the bees off that tree the pre- vious 25 j-ears is surely quite a mystery. Most bee-folks do know these things, after a fashion ; but when political editors and other outsiders give us tafi'y we tumble, and lose our heads altogether too easily. The circulation of thinly- disguised nonsense tends to make the public think that all our claims are nonsense—which is far from being true—in fact, some of the claims of that quotation are O. K. Spring Manag'ement of Bees in Large Hives for Extracted
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