. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Honey and Propolis. Honey—the next product which we are to examine. It is the nectar of flowers gathered and stored in the comb where it is subject to a ripening and curing process by the bees. That it passes through some change and re- ceives some secretions from the bee, after it is taken from the flowers, while in the honey-sac, and in the comb he- fore it is sealed over, I have no dou'it; but just what these changes are, and the exact nature of the secretion I h to not able to tell. There are many theo-. Egg-Tubes and Ovaries of Queen. clover head
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Honey and Propolis. Honey—the next product which we are to examine. It is the nectar of flowers gathered and stored in the comb where it is subject to a ripening and curing process by the bees. That it passes through some change and re- ceives some secretions from the bee, after it is taken from the flowers, while in the honey-sac, and in the comb he- fore it is sealed over, I have no dou'it; but just what these changes are, and the exact nature of the secretion I h to not able to tell. There are many theo-. Egg-Tubes and Ovaries of Queen. clover head to clover head, and never from clover head to any other kind of flower. You, no doubt, have noticed how imperfect the apples are in some years. This is caused by cold weather during the fruit bloom which prevents the bees from visiting the blossoms sufliclently to secure their perfect fertilization. An apple is the result of the fertiliza- tion of five pistils ; and if any of these fail to be fertilized, it is sure to be im- perfect. So you now see we need the bees in order to raise perfect fruit—in fact in many cases, any fruit at all. There was no red clover in Australia, and they could not raise seed there until they imported nests of bumble-bees to fertilize the clover. Italian bees would have answered the same purpose. Sectional View of Bee-Sting. ries and speculations about this, but I have not the time nor disposition to ex- amine them now. Let me say, howev- er, while I am on this subject, that you cannot feed bees sugar syrup and have them make honey out of it. Neither has any one been able to make comb, and fill it by machinery with glucose, and sell it for honey. This has never been done, the popular yarns to the contrary notwithstanding. " Mark this, ?' if you please. Propolis, from "pro" before, and "polls," a city, is so called because the bees use it for stopping the holes in the hive, to protect their home or city. It is placed, as
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