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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAu 



Sowing 15 n ok wheal for Honey- 

 Will it Pay? 



Query 848.— 1. Would it pay to sow buck- 

 wheat for honey ? 2. If so, how would it do 

 to furnish my neighbors seed free, in order to 

 increase the honey-acreage ?— Ohio. 



2. In some places it might pay well. — 

 C. C. Milleb. 



1. Not especially for honey, but for 

 grain and honey, yes. 2. A good plan 

 to try. — Eugene Secor. 



It might pay in the latitude of Ohio, 

 but not south of Tennessee or North 

 Carolina. — J. P. H. Brown. 



This is a subject that will bear much 

 discussion and thought. I am inclined 

 to think it would pay well, in most 

 localities. — W. M. Barnum. 



1. No. At least not here. 2. Buck- 

 wheat here does not furnish honey 

 enough to pay for the seed. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



1. Not here. 2. We used to do this, 

 but find that knot-weed and Spanish- 

 needle furnish better honey at the same 

 date. — Dadant & Son. 



2. It will not pay you to buy seed and 

 give to another party ; it is too uncer- 

 tain a honey flora, and a slow seller 

 when you get it. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. This is owing to location. Should 

 there be an absence of honey-producing 

 flowers, it might pay. 2. I am not sure 

 on this point. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



1. Not for honey alone, but (2) it 

 would probably pay you well to furnish 

 seed to your neighbors. They furnish 

 the land, and you get the honey. — A. B. 

 Mason. 



1. No; but why not also reap the 

 buckwheat which is usually a paying 

 crop ? 2. That is a question I have 

 never been able to settle satisfactorily. 



— C. H. DlBBEBN. 



1. In some States it pays to raise 

 buckwheat for honey, but it does not 

 pay in Ohio, except for the grain. Bees 

 will work on it, but get little else than 

 pollen. — G. L. Tinkeb. 



1. Not for honey alone. In my locality 

 I would just as soon not have any buck- 

 wheat planted. 2. I have doubts as to 

 the advisability of offering any such in- 

 ducements, as a rule. — James A. Geeen. 



1. Yes, it will pay if the bees work on 

 it; but buckwheat does not secrete 

 honey in all seasons. 2. Better sow on 

 your own land, then if the honey fails, 

 you will have the seed. — Mbs. L. Harri- 

 son. 



1. I don't think it would ; the field of 

 nectar is so uncertain. 2. If it would 

 pay at all, it would pay to furnish seed ; 

 but in my opinion it doesn't pay to sow 

 seed especially for a honey crop. — J. E. 

 Pond. 



1. Not in this locality. We have had 

 a good buckwheat yield here this year, 

 which is the first pound of buckwheat 

 honey that has been produced in my 

 apiary for the past 15 years. — G. M. 

 Doolittle. 



1. Yes, if you have land, as the buck- 

 wheat will pay ori its own hook ; and 

 then, if you have a favorable season, 

 you will get honey beside, though not 

 every year. 2. Won't pay. The honey 

 yield is too uncertain. — A. J. Cook. 



2. Yes, provided you can keep your 

 neighbors from having the least sus- 

 picion that you want it growing for your 

 bees. This you can't do. In most locali- 

 ties, such work increases bees and bee- 

 keepers faster than honey-resources. — 

 James Heddon. 



2. We sometimes furnish our neigh- 

 bors with seed buckwheat, free ; some- 

 times it pays, and at other times it does 

 not. I would favor furnishing all that 

 would sow within one mile of the bees, 

 if they would not sow of their own 

 furnishing. — E. Fbance. 



1. If you are so situated that by sow- 

 ing at any particular time you could fill 

 in a gap in the honey-flow, yes ; provid- 

 ing you get the grain, too. 2. If you 

 must depend upon artificial resources, 

 perhaps buckwheat would pay as well 

 as anything. — Mbs. J. N. Heateb. 



1. It depends upon how much buck- 

 wheat is in range of your bees, as to 

 whether it will pay you. 2. It takes a 

 world of flowers to give a flow of honey, 

 and you would have to make a risky 



