. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. H. HANDLIPra SUES. See Frames, TO Manipulate; Anger of J3ees; also Stings, and Hiyes. HAULISra BEES. See Moving Bees. ^ HEARTSEASE (Polygonum persica- ria). This is one of a large family of honey- bearing plants of which the common buck- wheat is one. Heartsease, sometimes known as knotweed or heartweed, and (periiaps in- correctly) smartweed, is scattered over cer- tain i)ortions of the West, particularly in Illinois, Kansas, and Ne
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. H. HANDLIPra SUES. See Frames, TO Manipulate; Anger of J3ees; also Stings, and Hiyes. HAULISra BEES. See Moving Bees. ^ HEARTSEASE (Polygonum persica- ria). This is one of a large family of honey- bearing plants of which the common buck- wheat is one. Heartsease, sometimes known as knotweed or heartweed, and (periiaps in- correctly) smartweed, is scattered over cer- tain i)ortions of the West, particularly in Illinois, Kansas, and Nebraska. In the last named it reaches a height of from three to five feet, and grows luxuriantly on all waste and stubble lands. The flowers in clusters are generally purple, and, in rare instances, white. It yields in Nebraska, aiul other States in that section of the conil- try, immense quantities of honey. One bee-keeper, Mr. T. R. Belong, at the North American convention held in Lincoln, Neb , in October, 1896, reported that two of his colonies yielded each 450 lbs. of extracted, and that the average for his entire apiary was 250 lbs. per colony —all heartsease. While perhaps these yields were exception- ally large, quite a number of other bee- keepers reported at the same convention an average of 200 lbs. from the same source. When we visited Nebraska last there were acres and acres of this honey-plant over the plains as far as the eye could reach; and as it yields honey from August till frost, one is not surpiised at the enormous yields. The extracted honey varies in color from a light to a dark amber; and the tlavor,. V'o, -.» . ,, ;V %^^:''u/f,m^': ^*" sm^: A FINE FIELD OF 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 Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923; Root, E. R. (Ernes
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