. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. POLLEN. ISO POLLEN. ber contains an essential oil, besides some gummy matter, that gives an odor doubtless reminding the bees of the aroma of the open- ing buds. Not only do they thus collect the (to us) tasteless sawdust, but they have been found at different times on a great variety of substance
. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. POLLEN. ISO POLLEN. ber contains an essential oil, besides some gummy matter, that gives an odor doubtless reminding the bees of the aroma of the open- ing buds. Not only do they thus collect the (to us) tasteless sawdust, but they have been found at different times on a great variety of substances. A friend in Michigan, at one time found them loading up with the fine black earth of the swamps, and they have been known to use even coal-dust; but the strangest thing of all was told me by the owner of a cheese-factory, near by. lie said the bees were one day observed hovering over the shelves in the cheese-room, and, as their numbers increased, they were found to be packing on their legs the fine dust that had accumulated from handling so much cheese. Microscopic investigation showed this dust to be embryo cheese-mites, so that the bees had really been using animal food as pollen, and living animals at that. If one might be allowed to theorize in the matter, it would seem this should be a rare sub- stance to crowd brood-rearing to its utter- most limit. As cheese can now be bought here for 6 or Sc. by the quantity, it might not be so very expensive for bee-food after all. Bees can be taught to use a great variety of articles of food in this way, when they are in need of pollen, and therefore the story of giving a hive of bees a roasted chicken, to promote their comfort and welfare, may be not entirely a myth. Ground malt, such as is used in making beer, has been very highly recommended in place of rye meal; but as I have never succeeded in getting any of it, I can not speak from practical experience. THE AGENCY OF THE BEES IN FERTILIZING PLANTS, BY MINGLING THE POLLEN. Th
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