H. 



HANDLIPra SUES. See Frames, 

 TO Manipulate; Anger of J3ees; also 

 Stings, and Hiyes. 



HAULISra BEES. See Moving 

 Bees. 



^ HEARTSEASE (Polygonum persica- 

 ria). This is one of a large family of honey- 

 bearing plants of which the common buck- 

 wheat is one. Heartsease, sometimes known 

 as knotweed or heartweed, and (periiaps in- 

 correctly) smartweed, is scattered over cer- 

 tain i)ortions of the West, particularly in 

 Illinois, Kansas, and Nebraska. In the 

 last named it reaches a height of from three 

 to five feet, and grows luxuriantly on all 

 waste and stubble lands. The flowers in 

 clusters are generally purple, and, in rare 

 instances, white. It yields in Nebraska, 



aiul other States in that section of the conil- 

 try, immense quantities of honey. One 

 bee-keeper, Mr. T. R. Belong, at the North 

 American convention held in Lincoln, Neb , 

 in October, 1896, reported that two of his 

 colonies yielded each 450 lbs. of extracted, 

 and that the average for his entire apiary 

 was 250 lbs. per colony — all heartsease. 

 While perhaps these yields were exception- 

 ally large, quite a number of other bee- 

 keepers reported at the same convention an 

 average of 200 lbs. from the same source. 

 When we visited Nebraska last there were 

 acres and acres of this honey- plant over the 

 plains as far as the eye could reach ; and as 

 it yields honey from August till frost, one 

 is not surpiised at the enormous yields. 



The extracted honey varies in color from 

 a light to a dark amber; and the tlavor, 



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A FINE FIELD OF IIEAKTSEASE. 



