. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ITU® MBIPPMT OF THE F13'I,I< Twenty-Seventh Annual Convention OF THE North American Bee-Keepers' Association, HELD AT LINCOLN, NEBR., October 7 and 8, 1896. BY DR. A. B. MASON, SECRETART. [Continued Irom pa^e 693.] WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION—CONTINUED. After recess there was a discussion on the subject of Honey Production and Plants. Mr. DeLoDg v^as asked how many colonies he has. Mr. DeLong—I have 20 colonies now. I took 450 pounds of honey from each of two colonies this year. I had a number from which I took 300 or 350 pounds each. Ques.—When di
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ITU® MBIPPMT OF THE F13'I,I< Twenty-Seventh Annual Convention OF THE North American Bee-Keepers' Association, HELD AT LINCOLN, NEBR., October 7 and 8, 1896. BY DR. A. B. MASON, SECRETART. [Continued Irom pa^e 693.] WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION—CONTINUED. After recess there was a discussion on the subject of Honey Production and Plants. Mr. DeLoDg v^as asked how many colonies he has. Mr. DeLong—I have 20 colonies now. I took 450 pounds of honey from each of two colonies this year. I had a number from which I took 300 or 350 pounds each. Ques.—When did the honey-flow commence? Mr. DeLong—July 25. I live in Nuckolls county, Nebr., between Edgar and Nelson. Let me say that I got S cents a pound for most of this honey. A discussion arose as to which is the best honey-produc- ing plant—the alfalfa or the white clover. The majority agreed upon white clover. , R. C. Aikin, Loveland, Colo.—When I lived in eastern Iowa we produced heart's-ease honey. In going from there to Colorado I met a man who had hearfs-ease honey. I recog- nized the old honey we produced in Page county, Iowa. This man gave me a couple of sections, and when I took it and let it run into the alfalfa honey it became very dark. Alfalfa honey is white. Now, if I remember correctly, Mr. Wallen- meyer, of Indiana, mixes heart's-ease and alfalfa honey together, and then sells it. Heart's-ease honey is lighter- colored in Iowa than in Kansas. The Secretary said alfalfa honey is the lightest colored honey there is, and others said the same. Mr. DeLong—My experience has been that we always get more honey when we have plenty of rain than during a dry season. Mr. Stewart—One fall, I think in 1891, I took an average of So pounds of comb houey per colony of white clover honey, and it was the best in the market. Mr. DeLong—I claim that some of my hives have a bushel of bees. Mr. Lang.—I had the pleasure yesterday of calling upon Mr. Davidson, at Omaha, a
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