. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 82 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL March honey per year. One year it was over 100 pounds. Honey from cut- ton is very light in color, the comb v< ry white, and of excellent flavor when well ripened. As soon as cool weather sets in this honey fairly draws out in long strings, when handled with a ;—Gleanings, page 1313, 1907. From the above it will be seen that cotton honey is of good quality, at least in some localities. Samples ?..ml to be from cotton from Georgia, are strong and of rather poor quality. while cotton honey received from Texas is lig
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 82 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL March honey per year. One year it was over 100 pounds. Honey from cut- ton is very light in color, the comb v< ry white, and of excellent flavor when well ripened. As soon as cool weather sets in this honey fairly draws out in long strings, when handled with a ;—Gleanings, page 1313, 1907. From the above it will be seen that cotton honey is of good quality, at least in some localities. Samples ?..ml to be from cotton from Georgia, are strong and of rather poor quality. while cotton honey received from Texas is light in color, of mild and rather pleasing flavor. The honey from cotton granulates very quickly. That produced in the southeastern States also has the effect of bursting the containers, possibly from the ef- fect of fermentation. The humidity of the atmosphere evidently has a marked effect on the quality of the honey from this plant. The following reports indicate the quality: "As to the quality of cotton honey, I can say from my own ex- perience, that it varies in color from light amber to almost water white. While I do not consider it equal to white clover in flavor, it is superior to basswood. * * The flow increases toward the last of the season, and if we can get two weeks of nice weather after frost it amounts to a considerable increase in the ;—J. D. Yan- cey, Hunt Co., Texas. Gleanings, page 162, 1910. "It did well on our rich bottom land and yielded a fair crop of the finest honey it was ever my pleas- ure to see. It was so thick that it was almost impossible to extract it, and entirely out of the question to strain it through a single thickness of cheese-cloth. It was light in color, mild in flavor, and very heavy, and in my opinion superior to any honey ever shipped to this locality, not excepting huijilla. The long drought and consequent ab- sence of all other bloom enabled us to get a purer cotton honey than we had ever been able to get be- fo
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