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ber of bees may be lost from this cause, it is hardly as serious 

 as it has been pictured in many of the printed articles. 



The milkweed is a really good honey plant, and where suffi- 

 ciently abundant contributes a liberal portion to the prosperity 



Fig. 40. — Catnip yields honey abundantly. Fig. 41.— Figwort or Simpson's honey plant. 



of the apiarist. In " Gleanings in Bee Culture," for July, 1912, 

 Mr. George H. Kirkpatrick, of Michigan, reports a yield of 

 1320 pounds from eleven colonies in eleven days, gathered from 

 milkweed. Any plant that will produce one hundred or more 

 pounds of honey per colony, in such a short period of time, even 

 under extraordinary conditions, is worthy of attention. 



