. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 368 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November important, and a little from sumac. From the latter he gets just enough to color the honey as it comes from the extractor, as a rule. The sumac honey when stored by itself, he finds to be greenish but light in color and strong in flavor. Some buckwheat is grown in the country round about, but he finds it important as a source of surplus onl}' about one year in ten. In his honey house is one big settling tank that holds 27,000 pounds, which makes it possible to keep the ex- tractor humming without stopping to fill a lo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 368 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November important, and a little from sumac. From the latter he gets just enough to color the honey as it comes from the extractor, as a rule. The sumac honey when stored by itself, he finds to be greenish but light in color and strong in flavor. Some buckwheat is grown in the country round about, but he finds it important as a source of surplus onl}' about one year in ten. In his honey house is one big settling tank that holds 27,000 pounds, which makes it possible to keep the ex- tractor humming without stopping to fill a lot of cans every few hours. At the time of the visit, fourteen thou- sand pounds of raspberry honey was piled up in sixty-pound cans, ready to be shipped to market. The roads are splendid, and since one or the other is almost certain to yield, and both are likely to do so. Mr. P. W. Sowinski lives not far from Mr. Gordon and his honey comes from similar sources. After visiting beekeepers whose supers were empty in the clover region, one could hardly believe his eyes when he beheld the hives piled high and was assured that they were actually full of honey. Mr. Sowinski was haul- ing the honey from the outyard and getting it into cans as fast as one man could extract it. As already stated, most of the raspberry honey was already extracted and the milk- weed flow was at the height. One of his yards is situated in a cherry or- chard and the trees were heavily loaded with the finest cherries, which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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