. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 64 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February TREES FOR HONEY By EHas Fox In the December issue, "Best Trees for Shade and Honey," by accident or otherwise, the box elder is omitted. It is one of the very best from the beekeeper's standpoint. It is a fast- growing tree, with spreading branches and dense foliage, providing a quick and beautiful shade. Since it is a species of maple it can be tapped in early spring and will provide a lib- eral How of sap, which can be boiled down to a delicious syrup, or even to sugar. It requires an expert to de- tect it
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 64 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL February TREES FOR HONEY By EHas Fox In the December issue, "Best Trees for Shade and Honey," by accident or otherwise, the box elder is omitted. It is one of the very best from the beekeeper's standpoint. It is a fast- growing tree, with spreading branches and dense foliage, providing a quick and beautiful shade. Since it is a species of maple it can be tapped in early spring and will provide a lib- eral How of sap, which can be boiled down to a delicious syrup, or even to sugar. It requires an expert to de- tect it from maple sugar cr syrup. The tree blooms profusely and yields as much pollen and nectar as the ma- ples. Sometimes a liberal supply of honeydew is secured from the foliage. Pollen, nectar, honeydew and sap pro- vide really four crops in the season. Blooming early, it furnishes very ma- terial aid to the bees for brood-rear- ing, thus providing a field force to gather the surplus crop later in the season. A SERIOUS MIS-STATEMENT L. A. Schott, a Missouri reader, sends us the following clipping, which is reported as coming from the Jour- nal of Agriculture, published at St. Louis: Honey From Grapes "In the vicinity of Jefferson C'ty, Mo., during the past season, beekeep- ers obtained a much larger yield of honey than usual, but did not know from whence the surplus came, as the supply 'of nectar-bearing plants was not in excess of former years, until owners of Concord grape vineyards went out to gather their fruit and discovered that most of their grapes \vere not as plump and juicy as they should have been and they were at loss to account for it until they kept a watch and noticed that bees swarmed into tlie vineyards and set- tled on the grapes. "Beekeepers also soon discovered that they were getting more honey than usual. The result was- that grape owners had but little left with which to make jams, jellies and grape juice, while the beekeepers had mot only a surplus
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