. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. bee-uiotlis. Think it would be well to en- courage these little birds to build their nests in the apiary. This may be easily done by fastening little boxes under the eaves,of out buildings, to fence-posts, or in trees, as the wren will readily select such a place for her nest, and a little box suits her taste exactly. The early part of this season was very favorable for obtaining honey ; but lately, bees have been doing very little. C. W. McKoWN. Gilson, Knox Co., 111., Aug. 5, 1S7S. For the American Bee Journal. The Wild Onion as a Honey Producer. I
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. bee-uiotlis. Think it would be well to en- courage these little birds to build their nests in the apiary. This may be easily done by fastening little boxes under the eaves,of out buildings, to fence-posts, or in trees, as the wren will readily select such a place for her nest, and a little box suits her taste exactly. The early part of this season was very favorable for obtaining honey ; but lately, bees have been doing very little. C. W. McKoWN. Gilson, Knox Co., 111., Aug. 5, 1S7S. For the American Bee Journal. The Wild Onion as a Honey Producer. I write this to call the attention of our brother apiarists to a valuable plant for honey—the wild onion. If farmers can tole- rate it in their pasture it would be very val- uable. It begins blossoming here about July 20th, and continues for two to three weeks. I am located G}4 miles south of the court house, in Chicago, at Englewood, and at present the prairies around, as well as rail- road tracks, are covered with its delicate pink-wliite blossom, and my bees are gath- ering it fast. I can smell the onion flavor coming out of the entrances blown by the busy wings of the bees ventilating the hives and thereby ripening the honey. The onion flavor thus passes otf, and when the honey is ready to be sealed you could not tell it from white clover; though I extracted some of it three years ago, and my better-half al- Avays insisted that she could taste the onion flavor; probably in consequence of taking out before it was well sealed over. The blossom is borne on a single delicate stalk, size of a knitting-needle or a trifle larger, from 9 to 15 inches high, from which it drops over in a bunch of 8 to 12 small single flowers branching from the upright stalk. I do not think Prof. Cook enumerates this in his "Manual," and yet I think it very valu- able, as it comes in a season when there is little else but buckwheat, and as its honey is white as clover, it is worth cultivatin
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