. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. catnip, and especially motherwort, seem ever ready to. yield their precious sweets, while most plants are alike sisceptible to moisture or drouth, and at times of these extremes, utterly refuse to yield their usual gifts of the coveted nectar. Some plants, too, like borate, seem not to be favor- ites, and only attract the bees, in numbers, ?when other plants refuse to secrete. The past season we have tried a number of plants from Bohemia, and other parts of Austria and Southeastern Europe, some of which came recommended very highly as honey plants. Bu
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. catnip, and especially motherwort, seem ever ready to. yield their precious sweets, while most plants are alike sisceptible to moisture or drouth, and at times of these extremes, utterly refuse to yield their usual gifts of the coveted nectar. Some plants, too, like borate, seem not to be favor- ites, and only attract the bees, in numbers, ?when other plants refuse to secrete. The past season we have tried a number of plants from Bohemia, and other parts of Austria and Southeastern Europe, some of which came recommended very highly as honey plants. But, to our surprise, none nave proved successful. Can it be possible that Elants become home-sick, or rather, that in eing acclimated their constitutions become so disturbed that they are unable to distill the precious sweets. At least I do not think a single season's results a crucial test, and shall certainly give them a second trial. How desirable that careful experiment shall discover to us the law which governs nectar secretion, as also the flowers or plants which are most indifferent to varied conditions of atmosphere, and thus most desirable for bee forage^, THE INDUSTRY AND THRIFT OF THE BEES COMMENSURABLE WITH PERSISTENCY OF HONEY SECRETION OK BEE FORAGE. f' I have been led by my experience for the past three years, to attach no little impor- tance to this last division of our subject. I have noticed that even our small beds, occu- pying but a few square rods, served the pur- pose of stimulative feeding, thus keeping the bees breeding during the usual interims, not only of storing, but of rapid brood-rearing as well. This continuous breeding keeps the hives crowded with bees, and ready to take the fullest advantage of the brief har- vest, when the honey seems to come in floods. Our experiments here, for three suc- cessive seasons, some years since, as given in the American Bee Journat,, showed conclusively that stimulative feeding, during the periods of summer when the
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