420 State Horticultural Society. 



KEEPING HONEY. 



The driest and warmest place in the house should be chosen for 

 storing sections of comb honey in, says the ''British Bee Journal." A 

 kitchen cupboard close to the fire forms an ideal storing place, and if the 

 sections are protected from dust, insects, mice, etc., by careful wrapping, 

 the honey in them will keep liquid for over twelve months. In some 

 seasons, however, honey in sections mil granulate in spite of every care. 

 Personally we have many times had sections in the best of condition after 

 twelve or eighteen months' storing. — Colman's Rural World. 



WHOLESOME HONEY. 



Physicians say that honey is more wholesome than sugar, as it has no 

 injurious effects upon either stomach or kidneys and is more rapidly as- 

 similated into the system. They also say that it would be well, to sub- 

 stitute it for butter, particularly for children, and this would be economy 

 as well, for the pound of honey would go as far as the pound of butter, 

 and afford more actual nourishment to the body. We say go as far, 

 because if children are given all they care to eat of it with their bread at 

 each meal, they will not eat as much of it as one might expect them to 

 who saw them indulge when it was given them only at long intervals and 

 as a luxury. Under these conditions, most of children and many older 

 people would eat as much at the one meal as they would at three meals, if 

 it was always before them. 



The pound of extracted honey costs much less than the pound of 

 comb honey, and there is neither bother nor waste, as with the comb 

 honey. One can buy it at the grocers in sealed tin cans direct from the 

 apiary, and be very confident of obtaining pure honey without adultera- 

 tion with sugar, syrup or glucose, if there is no beekeeper near by to 

 furnish it. With the small glass jars or bottles in which it is sometimes 

 sold we have less confidence in its purity, as by using fifty or even twenty- 

 five per cent of a dark-colored and strong-flavored honey, the very cheap- 

 est sort, the glucose or syrup can be given an odor and flavor very like the 



