Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 POULTRY, BIRDS AND BEES 245 keeping is light, pleasant work, and nearly every family in the country might at least have an abundant supply of fresh honey in return for a very little labor. Varieties of Bees.—More persons would keep bees, if they were not afraid of being stung. The common black honey bee is often quite vicious and will sting at the least Figure 115.—A well-developed apiary. provocation. ItaUan bees are now quite common and
Elements of farm practice, prepared Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture; elementsoffarmpr01wils Year: 1915 POULTRY, BIRDS AND BEES 245 keeping is light, pleasant work, and nearly every family in the country might at least have an abundant supply of fresh honey in return for a very little labor. Varieties of Bees.—More persons would keep bees, if they were not afraid of being stung. The common black honey bee is often quite vicious and will sting at the least Figure 115.—A well-developed apiary. provocation. ItaUan bees are now quite common and, if handled at all reasonably, are not in the least vicious. Most bee-keepers handle the Itahan bees with bare hands and bare faces and very rarely are stung. Sources of Honey.—Honey is the nectar of flowers gathered by bees. White clover, sweet clover, buckwheat and basswood are the chief sources of honey, though the bees will gather honey from a great variety of flowers, if none of the choice plants are available. Honey is a product that, unless gathered and stored by bees, is entirely lost. Bees not only gather honey, a useful product, from a source that costs nothing, but they are of material benefit to many of the plants they visit, as they aid in the pollination of the flowers. A hive of bees on every farm is a good slogan. To know about bees and their industrious, orderly habits is
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