Gleanings in bee culture . eet-clover seed (white) for free distributionamong the members in 25-gramme Know where they are at in Belgium. Professor Henry has an article in LeProgres Apicole for November on the locust-trees as honey-producing plants, and it maynot be generally known that locusts aremuch more appreciated in France, Belgium,and Holland than they are in this country,the home of some of them. He calls atten-tion to the fact that the leaves and smalltwigs of these trees form a food equivalentto alfalfa as a food for sheep, deer, and rab-bits. This should be noted by ga
Gleanings in bee culture . eet-clover seed (white) for free distributionamong the members in 25-gramme Know where they are at in Belgium. Professor Henry has an article in LeProgres Apicole for November on the locust-trees as honey-producing plants, and it maynot be generally known that locusts aremuch more appreciated in France, Belgium,and Holland than they are in this country,the home of some of them. He calls atten-tion to the fact that the leaves and smalltwigs of these trees form a food equivalentto alfalfa as a food for sheep, deer, and rab-bits. This should be noted by game-preserv-ers. Locust-trees of many species are very important to bee-keepers the world over, inthe United States, in Mexico, where the na-tional dulce is the pod of a locust; inHawaii, where the algorroba producesgreat yields of honey; also in Cuba and PortoRico; in the French West Indies, where thequadoo pods are valuable, and in SouthAmerica, where the ombu is John the Baptist lived on locust-pods(husks).. At the annual meeting of the VermontBee-keepers Association one gentleman gavehis experience in building up weak coloniesby the Alexander plan of setting the weakcolony over a strong one, and pronouncetlthe method a great success. It would seemthat the art of bee-keeping was never ad-vancing so rapidly as at the present Mention has been made in one or twonumbers of Gleanings of the high price ofhoney in England. We have taken some painsto get quotations from there, if we might knowthe truth of such high prices; but quotationsare only three to six pence a pound. Mean-while some one has been selling honey inChicago for 50 cents a pound—two betterthan in England. A few days ago a gentle-man told me that his own honey was retail-ing in New York, Brooklyn District, for 30cts. a pound. It looks hopeful.^> What do you mean, Mr. Editor, when yousay, page 18, Even the doctors must showwhat they put into their medicine when theygive it to a patient? Does
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