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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



valiio of alsike clover as at present. Tlie quality of 

 the honey can hardly be surpassed. As you are 

 aware, the past season also g-avo us g-reat advan- 

 tages for testing- the merits of the "Chapman hon- 

 ey-plant," which seems to otter great promise for 

 the future. Such a season also shows the wisdom 

 of the present agitation of the subject of supplying 

 forage for our bees, so that the sources may be 

 greater and more certain. L. C. Root. 



Mohawk, N. Y., Dec. ti, 1880. 



There are three points iu the above, to 

 which I wish to call attention. First, the 

 wonderful capabilities of basswood. and 

 that we are almost all of us destroying this 

 beautiful tree in making honey-sections, 

 about as fast as we can do it. How many 

 l)ee-keepers are planting basswoods for the 



for instance? Ere long we are going to test 

 the matter witli our 4U0(i young basswoods ; 

 and -4000 large trees in full bloom would 

 probably keep 40 colonies busy, say for the 

 greater part of two or three times seven 

 days. 



SKETCH OF THE HOME AND APIARY 

 OF T. P. ANDRE-WS, FARINA, ILL. 



GLIMPSE OF THE IT^ACE WHEUE 

 SPENDS HIS TIME. 



FKIEND A. 



y way of an explanation of the engraving I 

 will state that only about two-thirds of the 

 hives are shown in the cut. The small build- 

 ing at the left is the honey-house, where the 

 exti'acting- is done, where the honey is kept. 



APIAUY AND RESIDENCE OF T. P. ANDREWS, FAKINA, UA.. 



rising generation? Second, I want to em- 

 phasize what friend Root says in regard to 

 the value of honey from alsike clover. I 

 have been able to secure about two dozen 

 jars from the lot I have mentioned, exhibit- 

 ed at our Ohio State Fair. I paid about 3.5 

 cts. per jar for these, for samples. It any- 

 body wants one before they are gone, they 

 can have these for 40 cents. This beautiful 

 liquid amber honey has not candied a parti- 

 cle at the present writing, although we have 

 had weather below zero. Third, forty colo- 

 nies may gather, in one location, overlf lbs. 

 a day each, on an average, for 7 days in suc- 

 cession. Whicli one of us has even a glimpse 

 of wliat the future of the honey-business 

 may be, in favorable locations— an apiary 

 located in the midst of a i)asswood orchard. 



and where the surplus coml)S, taken from the up- 

 per stories of the hives, are stored away for winter. 

 The larger building is my workshop, and is fitted up 

 with machinery for cutting out lii\ e material antl 

 other fixtures. 



Our honey in tliis \icinity is gatliered mainly from 

 coreopsis. This plant, often miscalled " Spanisli 

 needle," i.s very abundant in this locality, covering- 

 many of the fields after harvest with a solid mass 

 of bright yellow blossoms. The honey gathered 

 from this bloom has an exceptionally rich and pleas- 

 ant flavor. The superior qualiti' of this coreopsis 

 honey is so well described by a correspondent in a 

 I'ecent number of the Amciicaii Bee Jonriinl, that 

 T will quote his words: 



" The honej lu-oduced by this plant is fast cominff 

 into pubh'c fa\-oi-. Its rich, beautiful golden color, 



