. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Conductedi-bylLOUIS H. SCHOLL, New Braunfels. Tex. A Warm Winter in Toxas—Other Subjects. Bees were very busy gathering pollen from mistletoe, cedar, and a very small blue flower that comes up and blooms in January and February. Water elms, wild currant, and "elbow"-bush are just coming into bloom. The last two fur- nish a good supply of honey as well as pollen when the weather is favorable. Unfortunately, though, for both the bees and their keeper, the weather is seldom favorable for best results during their bloom. This is all in January.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Conductedi-bylLOUIS H. SCHOLL, New Braunfels. Tex. A Warm Winter in Toxas—Other Subjects. Bees were very busy gathering pollen from mistletoe, cedar, and a very small blue flower that comes up and blooms in January and February. Water elms, wild currant, and "elbow"-bush are just coming into bloom. The last two fur- nish a good supply of honey as well as pollen when the weather is favorable. Unfortunately, though, for both the bees and their keeper, the weather is seldom favorable for best results during their bloom. This is all in January. Cause of Rapid Consumption of Stores. I don't think it is the frequent flights the bees have here these very warm winters we often have in this State that cause them to use up their stores faster than they do during cold winters, as much as it is the amount of brood reared. I opened a hive on Jan. 15, with a vigorous young queen, that had brood in 3 frames. They had all the way from the eggs to hatching brood, and their stores were disappearing in a hurry, too. That "Marigold" Honey. I am satisfied now, Editor SchoU, that the bee-keeper mentioned by me as hav- ing to give up bee-keeping in his local- ity on account of his bees gathering honey from wild "marigold" (pages 11 and 12) was not what is known to bee- keepers as the wild "marigold" at all, but his bees gathered the strong, bad- flavored honey he had in mind from a yellow flower that grows all up and down the rivers and creeks of this lo- cality. I don't know any name for the flower, but it certainly does furnish a very disagreeable flavored honey. It blooms in March and April, and some few years yields honey very plentifully. I moved most of my bees away from this place, mostly on account of this bloom, and the so-called "; If I am unfortunate enough to get some of this honey the present year (I con- sider it a real misfortune to befall a bee-keeper) I am going to mai
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