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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 



tion has been promised. Of course, 

 sugar prices will advance. Since 

 November 1, the price of industrial 

 sugar in carload lots has increased 

 from 150 Fr. per 100 Kg. to 200 Fr." 



These figures, in our money, would 

 read an increase from lS.6c per pound 

 to 19.5c per pound. It might be wor- 

 thy of note that Swiss beekeepers are 

 buying sugar at present for about the 

 same price that we are, and the hard 

 thing to comprehend is — why? No 

 sugar is produced. The question still 

 remains unanswered: Why are we 

 paying such exhorbitant prices in the 

 United States at the present time? 

 It would be interesting to know just 

 how many millionaires have been 

 created from the sale of high-priced 

 sugar. 



Wisconsin. 



Bee Pasturage 



By J. H. Paarniann 



HAVING recently entered into 

 partnership with a number of 

 colonies of bees, they have 

 appointed me assistant manager of 

 their supply department. In this ca- 

 pacity I am making an inventory of 

 their available sources of raw ma- 

 terials in and about the city of Dav- 

 enport, Iowa, as well as a report upon 

 the time of year 'when supplies may 

 be withdrawn from the storehouses. 

 I accordingly kept daily watch of our 

 flowers, wrote down the names and 

 took a photograph of all that were 

 patronized by bees, marked (*) those 

 that seemed to yield mainly pollen, 

 and (t) such as were visited by very 

 many bees. This list shows only 

 the more common plants of which I 

 kept records during the 1919 season. 

 Some common pollen plants, as corn 

 and ragweed, and such honey plants 

 as horsemint, should, of course, be in- 

 cluded in a complete list, and such 

 plants as pear and apple should re- 

 ceive more emphasis, but I am telling 

 only what I found in repeated obser- 

 vations during this one season. Other 

 seasons would give other results. 

 Some days, I'll admit, the observer 

 was doing useful work in the beeyard 



Blossoms of Culver's Root. Veronica z^rginica. 



when he ought to have been watch- 

 ing the flowers. 



To help identify unfamiliar plants, 

 their Latin names are added, as in 

 Gray's New Manual, 7th edition. 

 Only such illustrations are used that 

 have not previously appeared in the 

 Journal. 



The blooming periods, as given, 

 refer principally to the level land be- 

 yond the bluffs. Down in the valley 

 and on south slopes, plants bloom a 

 week earlier and on north slopes a 

 week later than here shown. 



I. Last week in March until mid- 

 dle April (dandelion until middle 

 May and again in late fall; ash trees 

 until middle May). 



Acer saccharinum, *soft maple. 

 Ulmus americana, *American elm. 

 Salix sp., *tpussy willow. 

 Taraxacum officinale, fdandelion. 

 Populus deltoides, *cottonwood. 

 Acer negundo, *box elder. 

 Fraxinus spp., *ash, various species. 

 *Tulip. 



II. Last half of April (plum begins 



Sheepberry, Viburnum Lcntago. 



earlier; apple and pear bloom until 

 middle of May). 



Plum, cultivated. 



Cherry, cultivated. 



tGooseberry, cultivated. 



Crab, cultivated. 



Apple and pear, cultivated. 



Betula nigra, river birch 



III. First half of May (barberry 

 blooms a week longer). 



Malus ioensis, fwestern crab apple. 

 Crataegus mollis, fHawthorn. 

 Berberis Thunbergii, t.Tapanese 

 barberry. 



IV. Last half of May and early 

 June (white clover until August 1 ; 

 roses until July 1). 



Lonicera tatarica, ftartarian honey- 

 suckle. 



Lonicera hispida, fhoneysuckle. 



Lonicera Morrowi, fMorrow's 

 honeysuckle. 



Quercus spp., '*Oaks. various spe- 

 cies. 



tFlowering- crat), cultivated. 



Acer negundo, box elder (honey- 

 dew on leaves). 



Aesculus hippocastanum, horse 

 chestnut. 



Prunus serotina, wild black cherry. 



Spiraea Van Houttei, "Bridal 

 wreath." 



Weigelia rosea, weigela. 



Trifolium repens, fwliite clover. 



Melilotus officinalis, yellow sweet 

 clover. 



Hicoria spp., *hickory, various spe- 

 cies. 



Rosa spp., *roses. 



Viburnum lentago, fsheepberry. 



Viburnum prunifolium, fblack haw. 



Aquilegia canadensis, wild colum- 

 bine. 



Robinia pseudacacia, fblack locust. 



Deutzia Lemoinei, fLcmoinc's Dciit- 

 zia. 



V. First half of June (red rasji- 

 berry begins a week later than black 

 raspberry; alsike blooms until late 



July)- 

 fBlack raspberry, cultivated. 



Philadelphus coronarius, fmock or- 

 ange. 



Red raspberry, cultivated. 



