. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. most grateful recipients of such favors bestowed on them, and repay it ten-fold in honey. Samuel Fish. Ohio, endorses spider plant as a most excellent honey plant : he thinks it one of the best. The Secretary read the following pa- per, entitled Bee Pasturage. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : As our honey crop mainly depends upon certain honey plants, ft necessarily follows that our bees should be provided with them, so that they can collect nectar from early spring to late autumn. These plants should be kept in abundance so that when t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. most grateful recipients of such favors bestowed on them, and repay it ten-fold in honey. Samuel Fish. Ohio, endorses spider plant as a most excellent honey plant : he thinks it one of the best. The Secretary read the following pa- per, entitled Bee Pasturage. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : As our honey crop mainly depends upon certain honey plants, ft necessarily follows that our bees should be provided with them, so that they can collect nectar from early spring to late autumn. These plants should be kept in abundance so that when there is plenty of saccharine secretion in them the bees will not be obliged to stay at home. Many bee-keepers think no more about bee-pasturage than they would of feeding the beautiful songsters of the woods. >;' Tis true" they may believe there is an abund- ance of honey plants growing wild, under the best circumstances that nature will per- mit. Though this may be so with many localities, it is not so in all places. The basswood winch may grow with greatluxu- rience here, and the bees get a good flow of honey, a few miles further on there may be none of it. Where field flowers full of rich honey are in abundance, bees will com- mence to gather surplus early in the season. All kinds of honey plants are not favor- able to all locations ; the basswood will not grow where it is wet and marshy ; in such places the willow, maple, golden reds. and Spanish needles grow abundantly, and in such locations bees may have very little surplus in the early part of the season while in autumn they will have every cell filled with the most delicious honey. * The white cloveris fast becoming the best honey plant for it is genial to nearly all soils and can he found every where, along the road- sides, in the meadows, and in the pastures, and in my opinion it blooms longer where cattle are herded than elsewhere. About '2(i rods from my apiary is a field of f30 acres, used for herding cattl
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