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grade?" I told him this was new honey from the bloom of either corn 



to me, and that he would have to or cane, but the stalks and blades 



furnish some proof of his statements of both are often almost covered 



before I could believe them. He with these same plant lice, and I 



said the red blooms on cotton (which have seen the bees fairly swarm on 



are the blooms of the previous day) the blades and stalks of both in the 



always furnished a dark or reddish early morning, lapping up this "honey 



honey, and that the white blooms dew," which the bloom had nothing 



(all cotton blooms are white when to do with furnishing, 



they first open, or for the first day) xhe same is true of the elm and 



furnished a very clear white honey, various oaks. They do not furnish 



I have been a close observer of honey, but are all great pollen pro- 

 honey and plants that furnish our ducers, and, I have no doubt, are all 

 surplus honey of the south, and if beneficial to the bees at certain sea- 

 there is anything I am sure of, it sons of the year. A prominent writer 

 is that honey gathered from the cot- of the South, on apiculture, once said 

 ton bloom is all very clear and of to me, in reply to what I have said 

 mild flavor, and is of the very best of these plants not furnishing any 

 quality we get here in the south, and honey, something like this: "Friend 

 is never red or dark in color. Smith, we are sure these bees and 



Bees do work freely on both the phmts furnish at least enough honey 

 red and white blooms of the cotton to sweeten the pollen they collect 

 plant — not only that, they work on from them; if not, how is it the pollen 

 the squares and half-grown bolls the bees collect from them is sweet 

 which have honey glands on the un- to the taste?" My reply to the above 

 der side, and secrete nectar freely is — how is it the flour, cotton seed 

 when weather conditions are just meal and the various substitutes used 

 right. The leaves also have honey by bees for pollen in early spring 

 glands on the under side of them, are sweet to the taste? The answer 

 and I have seen bees work freely is very sinrolc '^.-.-•A c^.sy. When bees 

 on them the present season, but all are working on any plant that fur- 

 the honey, so far as I am able to nishes no honey, or working on meal 

 judge, that i> scrrctcd by the honey or flour, they always carry or have 

 glands of the cotton plant (either sufficient honey in their honey sacs 

 blooms, bolls, or squares) is of the to moisten the pollen, 

 same quality, color and flavor, and j^ j^ ^„ j„atter to tell whether 

 that the best. I am well aware that ^^^^ ^^^ gathering honey or only 

 the cotton plant is often infested with jj^^^ ^^^^ pl^nt, and I see no 

 plant hce, and have seen the leaves j.^^^^^ ^^,j^ intelligent person 

 fairly dripping with the so-ca led ^^^^ ^^ ^^ -^ ^^^^^^ ^^ t^ ^he plants 

 honey dew. That, of course, like ^^^^ -^^ honey, and those that fur- 

 all honey obtained from that source, ^^j^,^ ^^, p^H^j^ And I have my 

 is of dark color and strong flavor ^^^^^^^ ^^ anyone making a continued 

 This, though, could not be called s^^cess of bee-keeping that does not 

 honey from cotton, but opens the ^^^^ ^^^ ^ l^nt^ ^f their local- 

 way for anyone to see how easy it j. 

 is for one not a close observer to \^ 

 be deceived. How is it possible fc-r Rescue, lex. 



the bloom of any one plant to fur- 



nish two kinds of honey, say a light 



and a dark grade? Bee-keeping is much more difficult 



Then we have often heard bee- in Europe than in America, and re- 



k e e p e r s say, "When the corn quires different treatment and greatei 



tassles and the sorghum cane comes gj,}]] j^ obtaining good results.— B. B. J 

 in bloom, bees will he sure to get 



rich, for they are both good honey 



plants. Here again there is some ,„,,,. 



mistake according to my views. I We understand that the Far-Western 



am positive that hees do not get Bee-Keeper has ceased to exist. 



