Excerpt from The American Bee Journal, Vol. 30: July 1, to December 29, 1892 Under the head of Apiculture is a description of what was done during the year in the interest of bee-keeping. It states that Prof. A. J. Cook, of the Michigan State Agricultural Experiment Station, was commissioned Jan. 1, 1891, for a period of six months, and Mr. J. H. Larrabee, of Vermont, was appointed to assist him. Experiments, some of them in continuation of those instituted previously by the Michigan Station, were undertaken with a View of determining the value of special plant ing for honey the effect on bees of the poison used in spraying fruit trees; the value of bees as fertilizers; the intro duction of an improved strain 'of bees a determination of the amount of honey required to produce one pound of wax whether the worker-bees feed the drones albuminous food and to determine the conductivity of wax. Among the results apparently proven by the experiments of the season we may mention the following A number of honey-plants were tested, and the conclusion was reached that none of them would pay for cultiva tion for honey alone. A second experiment indicated that spraying with arsenicals should not be carried on while the bees are visiting the blossoms of fruit trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.