. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. i,Entered as second-class matter at the Post-office at Hamiltou. 111., uuder Act uf March a. Published Monthly at $ a Year, by American Bee Journal, First National Bank Building C. p. DADANT. Editor. DR. C. C. MILLF:R. Associate Editor HAMILTON, ILL., JANUARY, 1915 Vol. —No. 1 Editorial Comments Aster Honey J. L. Byer, in Gleanings in Bee Cul ture, says that aster honey is light in color and nice in flavor. Dr. Miller's experience agrees exactly with the Byer description. Ours does also. We have had at one time some six barrels of honey
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. i,Entered as second-class matter at the Post-office at Hamiltou. 111., uuder Act uf March a. Published Monthly at $ a Year, by American Bee Journal, First National Bank Building C. p. DADANT. Editor. DR. C. C. MILLF:R. Associate Editor HAMILTON, ILL., JANUARY, 1915 Vol. —No. 1 Editorial Comments Aster Honey J. L. Byer, in Gleanings in Bee Cul ture, says that aster honey is light in color and nice in flavor. Dr. Miller's experience agrees exactly with the Byer description. Ours does also. We have had at one time some six barrels of honey which could not very well be from any other blossom, and it was almost equal to clover honey in color and quality. Notes from Abroad The account of our trip abroad will be interrupted next month, to give room for our recent visit to Quebec, Lower Canada and the Montreal con- vention. But the recital of our visits among European beekeepers will be taken up again in March and carried to completion. So many of our sub- scribers have expressed themselves as pleased with the " Notes " that we have resolved not to curtail them. Napbtaliu of Smoke Under the title "No More Smoke for the Bees," in L'., Giuseppe Kossi gives what we believe to be a new way to tame the bees. He rubs his hands with powdered naphtalin, and, carefully opening the hive, lays his hands over the top of the frames. The odor drives the bees away. Oregon Beekeeping We acknowledge with thanks the re- ceipt from the State Entomologist of Oregon, Mr. H. F. Wilson, at Corvallis Oreg., of Bulletin No. 168, on the above subject. A map indicates that bee- culture in Oregon is successful, espe- cially on the west of the Cascade mountains. The pamphlet contains hints and may be had by addressing him as above. Mixing Nectar It h»s been asserted by some con- temporaries that the worker bees visit only one kind of blossom at one time' and do not go from blossom to blos- som indiscri
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