While one might expect the honey harvest to begin early in the South and move northward as the season advances, just as the wheat-harvest time sweeps northward from Oklahoma to North Dakota, such is not the case. True, there is a sweeping northward of the springtime development of the colonies of bees and the blooming of the first nectar and pollen-bearing plants of the sea son, but the honey harvest does not come until the bloom period of the plant or plants that furnish the main honey flow for the locality. In many localities the entire crop of surplus honey is gathered within a few weeks during the blooming period of some important nectar-bearing plant, the other nectar-bearing plants of the region being but minor sources. If one were to attempt to follow the honey harvest northward as the harvest hands of the Great Plains follow the wheat harvest, there would be a surprising amount of dodging about, sometimes north and sometimes south, as the season advances. — GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE MAY, 1922
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