Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — BEES MAKE PEACH HONEY [ARTICLE]

BEES MAKE PEACH HONEY

Problem of Using Juice of Ripe Fruit Is Solved by the Owner of a Ranch in New Mexico. Boswell, n! M. —Bees In the Pecos valley have solved the problem of making honey from the juice of ripe peaches. It is the latest and most daipty product from the fertile and famous Pecos valley. The peach honey will come from the ranch of E. W. Mlrable, located near Arfesia. So far as peach growers and bee-keepers can ascertain this will be the first honey made from the juice of ripe peaches in the country. Honey has been produced in many places made partly from the nectar of

peach blooms, but not before from the ripe fruit ) I On Mr. Mn-able’s ranch he produces large quantities of honey each year from alfalfa and mesqulte blooms, and thus far the bees have been satisfied with that sort of material. This year there has been an abundance of both kinds of blooms, but the bees decided to try ripe peaches. Recently Mr. Mlrable found the bees at work in his peach orchard. On some large peaches he found as many as a dozen bees hard at work. They were able to puncture the skin of the peach and not barm the fruit, and get alp the peach juice they wanted.

For three weeks he kept a close watch and the bees have worked with great diligence in the big peach orchards through the valley near Artesla They have stored the ‘peach sweets in the hives at the ranch and the new crop of peach honey will be ready for market during the coming iponth. The first to be taken will be shown at the Roswell exposition October 5, 6 and 7. The quality of peach honey is something that must be left to the readers imagination. Being a new product there are no samples, nor are there experts to dilate on its daintiness. The announqement of the new product has aroused a great deal of Interest and Mr. Mlrable has been advised to retchristen his ranch and call it Peach Honey Ranch.