BEE PASTURAGE. 
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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 20tli July and the 10th 
of August, when the flowers of 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 that 
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 IIONEV COLLECTED FROM IT. 
Swarms issuing as late as the 15th July, when they 
