Byron Walker—I have been in the locality of the willow-herb one year, and it did not yield honey that year. I believe it is considered a sure producer of honey. In Clare county there are many asters, and bees have died in the winter. Perhaps the yield was light.
Chas. Koeppen—I believe that more depends upon ventilation than upon the stores. The foul air and moisture must be carried off. I have two apiaries—in one there was a good yield, and in the other but little.
H. L. Hutchinson—I have not had a failure with golden-rod in ten years.
E. G. Grimes—Alsike furnishes the most honey in my locality.
Mr. Koeppen—Alsike is like other plants. Sometimes it furnishes honey, and sometimes not.
H. Webster asked if there was any foundation in the assertion that some bees gathered honey from red clover while others did not.
W. Z. Hutchinson—I one year had 1,000 pounds of honey from red clover. It was the result of a drouth that shortened the tubes of the blossoms. I had blacks, hybrids and Italians in the yard, and they all gathered honey from red clover.
August Koeppen said that it would pay to move bees to some other locality only when there was nothing that could be gathered at home. Migratory bee-keeping is largely practiced in Germany.
(Continued next week.)
