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Cucumber, squash, pumpkin, and melon blossoms furnish honey and 
some pollen to the bees in July and August. 
Eucalypti, valuable for their timber and as ornaments to lawn and 
roadside, are quick-growing trees adapted to the southern portions of 
the United States. They yield much honey between July and October. 
The carob tree, whose cultivation has been commenced in the South- 
west, is an excellent honey yielder in late summer. Itis an ornamental 
tree and gives, in addition to honey, another valuable product—the 
carob bean of commerce. 
Sacaline, a forage and ornamental plant of recent introduction, is a 
great favorite with bees. It blossoms profusely during August, is a 
hardy perennial, and thrives in wet and also fairly in dry situations, 
withstanding the ordinary summer drouth of the Eastern States because 
of its deeply penetrating roots. 
Buckwheat is an important honey and pollen producer. Its blossoms 
appear about four weeks after the seed is sown, hence it may be made 
to fill in a summer dearth of honey plants. 
HOW TO OBTAIN SURPLUS HONEY AND WAX. 
Good wintering, followed by careful conservation of the natural 
warmth of the colony, the presence of a prolific queen—preferably a 
young one—with abundant stores for brood rearing, are, together with 
the prevention, in so far as possible, of swarming, the prime conditions 
necessary to bring a colony of bees to the chief honey-flow in shape to 
enable it to take full advantage of the harvest. In addition it is only 
necessary to adjust the surplus honey receptacles in time, making the 
space given proportionate to the strength of the colony, and, while 
continuing to prevent as far as possible the issuance of swarms, to 
remove the accumulated honey fast enough to give abundant storage 
room. 
EXTRACTED HONEY. 
To secure extracted honey, the requisite number of combs may be in 
one long hive, or in stories one above another. Preference is most 
generally given to the latter plan. The brood apartment is made in 
this case to hold eight to twelve Langstroth frames, and a second, and 
sometimes a third or even a fourth story,may be added temporarily. 
These added stories may be for full-depth frames, or, for convenience 
in handling and in order to be able to control more closely the amount 
of space given, they may be half the usual depth, and but one of the 
half-depth stories added at atime. If numerous sets of combs are at 
hand, or if it is desirable to have others built, additional stories are 
put on as fast as the combs already occupied by the bees are filled. 
Before removing the filled combs time should be allowed the bees to 
ripen and cap the honey; hence enough combs are necessary to give 
the bees storage room while they are capping others. The honey in 
combs that are quite or nearly sealed over may be considered suffi- 
ciently ripened to be removed from the hive. 
