. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1903 THE AMERICAX BEE-KEEPER. ARE BEE JOURNALS READ? Worcester, March 16, 1903. Editor Bee-Keeper: Under date of February 17, I wrote you about black honey, not expecting to hear any more from it. March 14, just before our regular bee meeting I received an interesting letter from J. R. Common of Angelica, N. Y., which is worthy of repeating in these pages, as follows: "Twenty-five years ago I had about 30 colonies and they stored several boxes of just such honey as has been made by Worcester bees. No one could eat it; one taste was eno
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 1903 THE AMERICAX BEE-KEEPER. ARE BEE JOURNALS READ? Worcester, March 16, 1903. Editor Bee-Keeper: Under date of February 17, I wrote you about black honey, not expecting to hear any more from it. March 14, just before our regular bee meeting I received an interesting letter from J. R. Common of Angelica, N. Y., which is worthy of repeating in these pages, as follows: "Twenty-five years ago I had about 30 colonies and they stored several boxes of just such honey as has been made by Worcester bees. No one could eat it; one taste was enough. It was gathered where there were no blooms of any kind. It was honey dew ga,thered from hickory trees. "Every morning the hickory grove was alive with bees working for all they were worth. The worst of it was thev stored a lot of it around and in the brood nests. The result was that when the bees ate it, dysentery result- ed, and I lost most of them the fol- lowing winter. The stuff was thicker and more solid than any honey I have ever seen in my 50 years' experience in bee-keeping.'' One of our members did not agree with Mr. Common, for he says: "I do not agree with Mr. Commoh regarding the taste of black honey, nor regarding it as a producer of dysentery among bees. I kept 50 sections as black as my sample, and some a good deal better, thinking the honey would improve in time. But it hasn't changed. At first we wouldn't eat it, but now we find it delicious. One small member of our family even prefers it to the white article. The Worcester County Bee-Keepers' Association will close its winter season with a banquet early in April. It is ex- pected that the flow of honey will be enormous. Another instance that bee journals are read: We received a let- ter from a New York bee inspector warning us that foul brood was enter- ing Massachusetts, but more of this later. Both of the letters mentioned above came as a result of reading bee iournals. C. R. Russell. .???????
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