Show HONEY FROM FRUITS dc nl peaches and grapes by the ravages of bees nectar in flowers is not honey says a writer in monthly this nectar is gathered by the tongue of the bee and enters what is called the honey bag from which it is bated by the bee on its return to the hive and deposited in the honey cell even then it is thin and watery and does not become really honey until the watery parts pans nave evaporated in collecting the sweets the bees do not confine themselves wholly to the flowe flow ersi fo the writer of this paragraph has for r a next neighbor a professional bee keeper whose boes bees depend almost wholly on the flowers from the fv writers garden that is to say there are few other flowers except wild ones on which w the bees can collect Lar material te rial unfortunately for him they mey are not satisfied with the flower but a also 6 carry away the fruit it is almost impossible in r raspberry sp berry time to get enough from his garden to make a a respectable dish for the tea table nearly every berry is sucked to pieces before it is absolutely ripe it is the same with the grapes in order to secure them from the ravages of the bees they ahey have to be protected by paper bags last season and for the first time they have been found to carry awa peaches also now how they first penetrate the skin is not clear but it may possibly have been from the puncture of the the curc frequently cuts the skin without depositing the egg and this single break may be borne along without injury to the peach permitting it to io ripen it is possible that they get a first entrance here at any rate certain it is that before the peach is fairly ripe little is left of the peach but the stone other fruit growers likewise complain of the ravages of the bees mee bee keepers contend that this cannot be that the bee is incapable of perforating fo the fruit this may br or may not be certainly what perforations might exist before the bees discovered them would not injure the fruit the following up of this by the bees is just as bad as if they made the original perforations for themselves |