. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 132 April, 1915, I American ^e Joarnal honey flow. There is a very marked difference. There is no reason why the honey cannot be extracted warm with our system. When it comes to the quantity of honey extracted, we have extracted on an average 1000 pounds an hour, keeping it up for a day. I feel very sure that is quite outside of the range of the leaf hive. In regard to wintering bees in houses above ground, as suggested by Mr. Spuhler, a good many of us think that about the worst place for a colony of bees to winter. I have seen several such structure
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 132 April, 1915, I American ^e Joarnal honey flow. There is a very marked difference. There is no reason why the honey cannot be extracted warm with our system. When it comes to the quantity of honey extracted, we have extracted on an average 1000 pounds an hour, keeping it up for a day. I feel very sure that is quite outside of the range of the leaf hive. In regard to wintering bees in houses above ground, as suggested by Mr. Spuhler, a good many of us think that about the worst place for a colony of bees to winter. I have seen several such structures, and in no one case did the bees winter well in them. Where neighbors are close, and the area at the command of the beekeeper is very limited, and not many c olonies kept, the " house apiary " may be an impor- tant help to overcome difficulties. Brantford, Canada. [Location, climate, circumstances of different kinds constitute the reasons for differences of opinions on the sub- ject. Wintering bees in the shelter of a bee house has not proven injurious in our case. On the contrary, the bees wintered best for us in a bee house. But in every other particular, our ex- perience tallies with that of brother Holtermann. We will be glad to hear from others upon this subject.—Edi- tor.] No. 4.—The Honey-Producing Plants BY FRANK C. PELLETT. [Photosraths by the author.) THE mint family of plants i-i a very large one, with square stems and opposite leaves. Most of the mints are aromatic, and many are used in medicine or cookery. Among the bet- ter known mints may be mentioned: lavender, spearmint, peppermint, pen- nyroyal, rosemary, germander, horse- mint, horehound, savory, sage and many others. There are several well- know bee-plants among the mints, two of which will be here considered. The rest will wait until such time as we are able to secure satisfactory pic- tures, as the chief object of this series is to enable the reader to recognize the plants under considerati
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