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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. 
