. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1914. American Hee Journalj Dr. Millers ^ Answers^ Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal or direct to Dk. C. C. Miller, Marengo, III. He does not answer bee-keepine questions by mail Bitter Honey I have about 200 colonies, and on the hives is considerable honey moslly in half-depth frames—not wired. I find that a great por- tion of it is very bitter I am at a loss to know what they worked on to produce such a taste in the honey Last fall they were storing from asters and the bloom froze, yet they stored for several
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. September, 1914. American Hee Journalj Dr. Millers ^ Answers^ Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal or direct to Dk. C. C. Miller, Marengo, III. He does not answer bee-keepine questions by mail Bitter Honey I have about 200 colonies, and on the hives is considerable honey moslly in half-depth frames—not wired. I find that a great por- tion of it is very bitter I am at a loss to know what they worked on to produce such a taste in the honey Last fall they were storing from asters and the bloom froze, yet they stored for several days from the frozen bloom. That honey was not all thoroughly ripened, yet the bees wintered finely. This spring they worked on dandelion, fruit bloom, maples, poplar, basswood, sweet clover, little boneset. and a meadow weed. with a flat white top; people call it "yar- ; Also some reported them working at joints near the roots of red clover. There was some honeydew. yet I did not see any bees working on it. 1 sell most of my honey cut from half- depth frames, and put it in buckets at 15 cents a pound, which is as much as I can get in sections I had thought of taking off all their sur- plus, then extracting the combs, and have them to put back to catch the fall flow, then feed where needed of this bitter honey. Can I clean the combs of this bitter honey so the fall honey will not have this bitter taste? Ohio. Answer.—We do not know from what source the bees harvested that bitter honey unless it is from the dandelion We have never seen enough gathered from this source to make a surplus, but it is quite pos- sible that you had enough for that. As to the " 3 arrow " {Ai:liilh\i milUfoliunr), we have never seen any bees upon it. It is classed among the weeds of Iowa by Prof. L H, Pammel. Its scientific name, Millcfi>lium. meaning "a thousand leaves," conies from the fineness and great number of its leaves. Perhaps some of our subscribers ca
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