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not best always to take our word, who pretend to know 

 all about it, but look for yourselves into some of these 

 matters. Take a look some warm morning, when the 

 pumpkins are in bloom, and see whether it is honey or 

 pollen they are in quest of. Also please make an 

 observation when they are at work on the red rasp- 

 berry, motherwort, or catnip ; you will thus ascertain 

 a fact so easily, that you .will wonder any one with 

 the least pretension to apiarian science could be igno- 

 rant of it. I mention this, not because it is of much, 

 importance in itself, but to show the fallibility of us 

 all, as we sometimes copy the mistaken assertions of 

 others. 



ADVANTAGES OF BUCKWHEAT. 



Under some circumstances, clover will continue to 

 bloom through this part of the season; also, a few 

 other flowers ; but I find by weighing, a loss from 

 one to six pounds, between the 20th July and the 10th 

 of August, when the flowers oT buckwheat begin to 

 yield honey, which generally proves a second harvest. 

 In many places it is their main dependence for surplus 

 honey. It is considered by many an inferior quality. 

 The color, when separated from comb, resembles 

 molasses of medium shade. The taste is more pungent 

 than clover honey; it is particularly prized on tnat 

 account by. some, and disliked by others for the same 

 reason. In the same temperature it is a little thicker 

 than other honey, and is sooner candied., 



AMOUNT OF HONEY COLLECTED FROM IT. 



Swarms issuing as late as the 15th July, when they 



