. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAISI BEE 399. CMef Sources of Surplus Honey, Etc. Query 942.—1. What is your chief source of surplus honej' ? 2. What plant, if any, will it pay for you to cultivate for honey alone ?—Indiana. 1. Linden. 2. None.—Eugene Secor. 1. White clover. 2. None.—M. Maiiin. 1. Basswood. 2. None.—P. H. El- wood. 1. White clover. 2. None.—J. A. Green. 1. Basswood. 2. Not any.—G. M. DoOhlTTLE. 1. Clover and linden. 2. None.—J. H. Larrabee. 1. Heart's-ease. 2. Alfalfa.—Mrs. J. N. Heater. 1. White clover. 2. White clover.— Mrs. L. Harrison. 1. White c
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAISI BEE 399. CMef Sources of Surplus Honey, Etc. Query 942.—1. What is your chief source of surplus honej' ? 2. What plant, if any, will it pay for you to cultivate for honey alone ?—Indiana. 1. Linden. 2. None.—Eugene Secor. 1. White clover. 2. None.—M. Maiiin. 1. Basswood. 2. None.—P. H. El- wood. 1. White clover. 2. None.—J. A. Green. 1. Basswood. 2. Not any.—G. M. DoOhlTTLE. 1. Clover and linden. 2. None.—J. H. Larrabee. 1. Heart's-ease. 2. Alfalfa.—Mrs. J. N. Heater. 1. White clover. 2. White clover.— Mrs. L. Harrison. 1. White clover. 2. I don't know of any.—C. C. Miller. 1. White clover. 2. Sweet clover, if any.—Jas. A. Stone. 1. White clover and basswood. 2. None.—R. L. Taylor. 1 and 2. Liriodendron tulipifera (pop- lar).—J. P. H. Brown. 1. White sage and wild buckwheat. 2. Not any.—A. J. Cook. 1. Clover, basswood and heart's-ease. 2. None.—C. H. Dibbern. 1. White clover and basswood. 2. I believe sweet clover, but I have not tried it.—E. France. 1. White clover, Alsike clover next, then basswood. 3. None that I know anything about.—II. D. Cutting. 1. Clover, knot-weed (also called smart-weed) and Spanish-needle. 2. Melilot (sweetclover).—Dadant & Son. 1. Our chief sources are catclaw, horsemint and raesquite. 2. I thfnk it will pay in this country to cultivate horsemint for honey alone.—Mrs. Jen- nie Atchley. 1. Frnit-blossoras in the spring ; white clover in the summer, and golden-rod in the fall. 2. I don't believe it will pay to cultivate any single plant from which to obtain a yield of nectar.—J. E. Pond. 1. White clover and basswood. 2. None. Alsike clover vi^ill produce fine honey, and make good pasture and hay, so what is the use of cultivating a plant that is good for honey only ?—Emerson T. Abbott. 1. Basswood. 2. Nothing that I know of where land is good enough for farming. Perhaps on poor and stony land it might pay to sow sweet clover, and
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