. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. BEES. 1737 usually removed early in August so that the white quality gathered may not be tainted with these later products. The number of honey-bearing wild Howers is very large, whQe many of the forest trees, such as the varieties of Maples, Aspens, Linden, Willow, etc., are valuable for this purpo e. The practice is prevailing in some sections for bee-keepers to cultivate such plants as are known to yield honey. Alsike Clover, Sweet Clover, White Clover, and Gian
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. BEES. 1737 usually removed early in August so that the white quality gathered may not be tainted with these later products. The number of honey-bearing wild Howers is very large, whQe many of the forest trees, such as the varieties of Maples, Aspens, Linden, Willow, etc., are valuable for this purpo e. The practice is prevailing in some sections for bee-keepers to cultivate such plants as are known to yield honey. Alsike Clover, Sweet Clover, White Clover, and Giant Mignonette are among the best, together with others not so prominent. A few acres of these will pay large returns in keeping up a fine bloom, producing the choicest quality of nectar until frost comes. Pliny states that the practice of removing bees from place to place, in order to keep them supplied with good pasturage, was common in the Roman territory; he says: " As soon as the spring food for bees has failed in the villages near our towns, the hives of bees ai-e put into boats and carried up against the stream of the river in th^ night, in search of pasture. The bees go out in the morning in quest of provisions, and return regularly to their hives in the boats, with the stores they have collected. This method is continued till the sinking of the boats to a certain depth in the water shows that the hives are sufBciently full; and they are then carried back to their former homes, where their honey is taken out of ; This custom is still in practice in Italy, France, and Egypt, floating barges of bees being frequently seen in the river Po, the Nile, and many of the rivers in France. This practice has been tested to a certain extent on the lower Mississippi, with good results, and when properly conducted would doubtless prove a very remunerative enterprise. Enemies and Diseases of Bees.—Bees have many enemies, among which may be mentioned the wasp, hornet, the
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