ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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to the Superintendent of rtocuments, 

 Government Printing Office, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, and sending a dollar. 



This will tell you the facts; you do 

 not have to guess at them. 



Mr. Stewart — How does honey com- 

 pare with the food value of sugar? 

 Honey and sugar are identical in 

 calories of heat energy. 



Mr. Williams — Honey and sugar are 

 practically identical when you elimi- 

 nate the water content of honey. There 

 are other things that make honey more 

 valuable than sugar. 



Mr. Stewart — What is it? 



Mr. Williams — Honey is assimilated 

 in five minutes; sugar, longer; I can 

 feel the effect in the stomach after 

 eating sugar; honey almost instantly 

 digests, the same as water. 



Honey contains mineral substances 

 that are needed in the body; sugar 

 contains none of them. We would 

 starve to death if we took sugar as a 

 food. It is interesting for us to study 

 these things. 



Mr. Stewart — Does not honey only 

 have eight per cent the nutrition that 

 sugar has, pound and pound? 



Mr. Williams — If you take out the 

 water. 



Mr. Stewart — But you buy it with the 

 water in? 



Mr. Williams — Sugar has to be acted 

 on by the kidneys. Sugar is a dex- 

 trose; honey is a nebulose and does 

 not have to be acted on by the kidneys. 

 If one were to quit eating sugar and 

 eat honey instead, there would not be 

 trouble with the kidneys. I know that 

 to be a fact myself. 



I have a sister who is a great pro- 

 hibitionist; they have meat and sugar 

 on the table continuously. I was tell- 

 ing her what Dr. Carton said of the 

 three great poisons; one was meat, the 

 other was sugar, and the other alcohol. 

 I told her that meat never hurt me, 

 nor did alcohol, but sugar acted on me 

 before I knew what was the matter 

 with me. 



Mr. Stewart — One thing I have 

 noticed, that the doctors are not fall- 

 ing over each other to recommend 

 honey for medicinal causes. 



President Miller — Is it practical to 

 have honey that will suit all tastes; 

 if so, how is it to be distributed? 



A member — My experience is that we 

 have honey to suit all tastes. I have 

 not seen any one yet that could not 



find some kind of honey that would 

 suit his taste. A man's taste will 

 generally demand that which he has 

 been accustomed to. He cultivates his 

 appetite; he may cultivate an appetite 

 for tobacco; he may cultivate an 

 appetite for alcohol; he may cultivate 

 an appetite for limberger cheese, or for 

 anything else; he can cultivate a liking 

 for black honey or white honey, or 

 basswood honey, by using it a con- 

 siderable length of time until he gets 

 accustomed to it. I have some custo- 

 mers who will have nothing but clover 

 honey; I have some customers who 

 will have nothing but basswood honey; 

 I have some customers who will have 

 nothing but buckwheat. 



President Miller — There is one dif- 

 ficulty in selling honey; people are 

 accustomed to certain kinds; a season 

 comes that you cannot get that kind 

 and they will not eat much honey. 



The A. I. Root Company I under- 

 stand is making a blend; they buy up 

 four or five different kinds of honey, 

 and they sell the same kind all the 

 year round and every year. Buy a 

 sufficient proportion of each kind to 

 make sure that their honey will be 

 the same year after year; the one who 

 buys knows what he is going to get. 



I put this question to Mr. Root the 

 other day — How can the little fellow 

 blend our honey so as to give the peo- 

 ple the same kind of honey the year 

 round? That is a pretty hard ques- 

 tion to answer. 



His answer to the question was this: 

 The only way was to buy in the 

 market, Chicago for instance, these 

 different kinds of honey and blend 

 them. You don't have to go to Cali- 

 fornia or to Florida, but buy these 

 honeys^in the markets and blend them. 

 I do not believe many of us will go 

 to that trouble; it is a problem as to 

 how to get uniform fiavor, when we 

 cannot produce it in our own yards. 



President Miller — ^I have five yards 

 and in each of the yards the honey 

 has a different fiavor from the other, 

 and next year it will not have the same 

 fiavor it has . this year. 



Question: South Water Street offers 

 eleven cents for the best grade of 

 extracted honey. Siegel, Cooper & Co. 

 are selling A. I. R. Line and Gtolden 

 Hod, two pounds for fifty cents, in 

 glass containers. Who gets the dif^- 

 ference? 





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