The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-05-09

We take the following from an essay
read before the State Agricultural So
ciety of North Carolina, by w. F..
Schultz, Esq, and afterwards published
in the Reconstructed Farmer" All
said in reference % North Carolina APP
plies equally well to Alabama and Mis-
sissippi;
In paper like this it would be almost
impossible, as well as useless, to detail
actual results that have been obtained by
scientific bee culture and from the italian
bee | may state, however, that in a re-
cent number of the American Bee Jour
nal, practical apiarist makes a report
of his success this year, which appears To
be almost incredible. This bee-keeper
reports having last spring forty-six hives
he took six thousand, one hundred and
siXty-two. pounds of surplus honey in
about five weeks time. This gave him
an average of one hundred and thirty
four pounds of surplus honey from his
forty-six hives. At fifteen cents per
pound this foots up 1924 30.-AG. Ed.
REG. Other instances might readily be
quoted from the files of the same journal
during the past few years, but time and
space forbid.
BY iudicious management Agriculture
can be made profitable in North Carolina
The climate is well adapted TO it, and
there are all the natural honey resources
in this State that can be found in any
other. With very rare exceptions, many
species of disease incident 10 bees, which
are quite prevalent in the Northern and
Western States, are unknown TO us.
We have more flowers than they have
in the reported hOney-States, and IA larger
quantity Of every species Of bee-food,
supply of honey-dew is very large, and
from this the finest honey in the world is
made. While the season Of the honey
dew lasts, which sometimes is four weeks,
strong stocks will collect from five to ten
pounds of honey per day. The question
will here naturally occur, what is honey
dew? We have two species Of honey
dew The one which is the more com
mon and of more frequent occurrence is
the secretion of genus of insects known
to entomologists as Aphides or plant lice,
which make their appearance about the
end Of April, unless the season is re-
markably wet, which is a great destroyer
of insect life This secretion il to be
found upon variety Of our forest growth.
| have seen it so abundant that had there
been 10, 900 stands within reaching dis
lance, all would have obtained their full
share The other species of honey dew
is said to be produced by peculiar con-
dition of the atmosphere, and is either Il
dew, or a sweet, sacharine, exudation
from the leaves Of the plants and trees.
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Besides the foregoing, there are innu-
merable other sources of honey deposit
during the summer months. From the
first of August until the middle of Sep
TENDER there is usually great dearth of
honey resources but about the latter
part Of September our fall field flowers
begin to bloom, the most prominent OF
which is the small white flower of plant
belonging To the Aster genus. Frost
weed, (Aster mleltjForus,) seen growing
in great abundance about our old fields
in the fall, and presenting an appearance
which suggests the common name-AG.
ED. REG. This will bloom until after
frost, and frost does not affect the bloom
sufficiently to destroy or vitiate the honey
secretion. have known, in a bad honey
year, the bees TO gather more honey from
the Aster during the months Of Septem-
Der and October than they made from all
other sources put together during the
summer.