. Quinby's new bee-keeping. The mysteries of bee-keeping explained. Combining the results of fifty years' experience, with the latest discoveries and inventions, and presenting the most approved methods, forming a complete guide to successful bee-culture. Bees. SOURCES OF HONEY, 53 each little floret secretes so minute a quantity, that the task of obtaining it is a slow one. It is only visited when more copiously yielding flowers are scarce. Bush Honeysuckle {Diervilla trifida), is a particular favorite. SINGULAK FATALITY ATTENDANT ON SILK-WEED. Milk-weed or Silk-weed {Asclcpias Cornuti), fig.
. Quinby's new bee-keeping. The mysteries of bee-keeping explained. Combining the results of fifty years' experience, with the latest discoveries and inventions, and presenting the most approved methods, forming a complete guide to successful bee-culture. Bees. SOURCES OF HONEY, 53 each little floret secretes so minute a quantity, that the task of obtaining it is a slow one. It is only visited when more copiously yielding flowers are scarce. Bush Honeysuckle {Diervilla trifida), is a particular favorite. SINGULAK FATALITY ATTENDANT ON SILK-WEED. Milk-weed or Silk-weed {Asclcpias Cornuti), fig. 11, is another honey-yielding perennial, but a singular fatality. Fig. 11.—^MILK-WEED. befalls many bees while gathering honey from it. Mr. Quinby observed during the period this plant was in bloom, that a number of the bees belonging to hives not full, were unable to ascend the sides to the comb; there would be sometimes thirty or more at the bot- tom in the morning. On searching for the cause, he found from one to ten, thin, yellow scales, of a long pear-shape, and about the twentieth part of an inch long, attached to their feet. At the small end, was a black, thread-like substance, from a sixteenth. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Quinby, M. (Moses), 1810-1875; Root, Lyman C. , 1840- ed. New York, Orange Judd company
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