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THE AMERICAN BEE JOLHINAC. 



April 7, 1904. 



have aimed at organization in production. A better prod- 

 uct brings a better market. The government has helped 

 the fruit-growers, etc., in producing and marketing a good 

 article. The government has shown itself willing and 

 anxious to help us in so far as we show a disposition to help 

 ourselves. We must be very particular to market only a 

 first-class article, properly graded. 



Mr. Dickenson found no difficulty in marketing good 

 honey without government assistance. 



Mr. Holtermann — How can we keep poor honey out of 

 the market without government help ? Other assosciations 

 ask and receive help. We pay taxes, and should have help 

 as well as they. 



Mr. Dickenson — We can not be put into the same class 

 with fruit-men, because the country is so easily overstocked 

 with bees. 



Mr. Lott — We want a system of inspection, as in the 

 case of government inspection of fruits. We should have a 

 government expert to inspect all honey before it is shipped, 

 to see that no unripe or otherwise inferior honey goes on 

 the market. 



J. L,. Byer — I agree with what has been said. Govern- 

 ment supervision has made, and keeps up, the apple mar- 

 ket. The same would apply to honey. Then we want a 

 government official to see after the market. We don't 

 know where to ship our honey — don't know the names of 

 firms who would handle it. Mr. Holtermann's criticism is 

 good. If the government does not appoint an inspector of 

 honey, who will ? The Dominion government is the place 

 to get it. They could also help in equalizing the distribu- 

 tion of honey throughout the Province. 



W. J. Brown— I believe Prof. Robertson, of Ontario 

 Agricultural College, offered, some years ago, to procure a 

 market for us. 



Mr. Holtermann — If you want to sell honey you must 

 send a man who knows all about honey. Don't send a dry 

 goods man to sell groceries, etc. 



Speaking of quality of honey, Mr. Dickenson said that 

 he found the best honey in the upper of two supers where 

 no fresh honey would have been put in for a few days. He 

 mentioned the paper of Mr. Mclntyre, of California, read 

 at the National convention, as being of great value to him. 

 He agreed with Mr. Mclntyre, that under ordinary condi- 

 tions honey need not be more than half capped to be of good 

 quality. As to marketing, every man should establish his 

 own name, and always send a good article ; then he need 

 have no fear of harm from poor honey sold by others. 



Mr. Darling— Every man has a monopoly of his own 

 name ; no one can steal that. 



Mr. Holtermann — It is a strange business principle to 

 say that the price of your goods is not affected ty other 

 goods. When an inferior honey is there to sell at a lower 

 price, it is bound to affect your price. 



Mr. Morrison— As to the advisability of getting gov- 

 ernment assistance, the government looks after the com- 

 merce of the country, forms tariff laws, etc.; we use a gov- 

 ernment grant. Why not let them help get a market ? 



Mr. McEvoy thought that the price of cheap honey 

 would have no effect on that of higher grades. 



Mr. Fixter advised sending honey to the Ottawa Fruit 

 Exchange. 



Mr. Darling had seen them selling goods at auction by 

 the Ottawa Fruit Exchange, and did not think much of the 

 idea. 



Mr. Eowey would not advise shipping to them, any 

 more than to any other commission house. There is much 

 loss incurred by the ignorance of these men in storing and 

 caring for honey. 



Mr. Miller thought the government had as much right 

 to assist us as it had to assist any other producers in the 

 country. Appoint a responsible and capable man to in- 

 spect the honey here, and have a man in the foregn mar- 

 ket. He saw no need for capital ; they should just get the 

 money and send it to the man who had produced the honey. 

 If poor honey were sent in by any member, return it to 

 him, and it would probably not occur again. 



Mr. Chrysler— It would be necessary to incorporate and 

 have money. 



Mr. Pettit— The most important work that can be done 

 along this line at present is to collect reports, say three or 

 four times— first when the bees come out of winter quar- 

 ters, as to their condition ; second, at the beginning of 

 clover, as to the condition of bees at that time; third, at 

 the end of the while honey-flow; and fourth, from those 

 who produce fall honey, when that is harvested. 



It was moved by Mr. Sibbald, and seconded by Mr 

 Byer, that a committee be appointed by the Association, to 



collect reports of the honey crop, etc., and distribute the 

 same to members; also to approach the Department of 

 Agriculture at Ottawa, with a view to establishing a mar- 

 ket in England, with power to arrange for a system of 

 grading by special act of parliament. Carried. 



It was moved by B. O. Eott, and seconded by C. W. 

 Post, that a committee be appointed to revise the by-laws 

 of the Association, the committee to consist of Messrs. 

 Sparling, Holtermann, Armstrong, Chrysler, Couse, Scott, 

 and Post. Carried. 



(Continued next week. ) 



[ Our Bec-Heepin§ Sisters J 



Conducted by Emma M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



White Nougat Candy of Marseilles. 



Boil over a very mild fire 2 pounds of choice honey 

 (white preferable), and keep moving it with a wooden stick. 

 After one hour of boiling, mix with the honey, still on the 

 fire, the whites of 6 eggs beaten thick. When the mixture 

 has become brittle (which you can tell by dropping some 

 into cold water), draw the vessel from the fire and add im- 

 mediately IV pounds of burnt sugar (broken sugar). Keep 

 agitating until the whole mass will have lost part of its 

 heat. Now add 6 pounds of peeled, dried and hot almonds ; 

 also 1 pound of peanuts (peeled, too). Flavor with vanilla 

 or lemon. 



Now spread over a table a layer of wafers (about 1x2 

 feet), and over it pour the mixture, still hot, so as to make it 

 about ,'2 inch thick. Over this again spread another layer 

 of wafers. Place on top a solid board, heavily laden. After 

 a quarter of an hour, divide the large cake into smaller 

 ones, wrap and pack carefully in paraffin paper or other suit- 

 able covering. — (From Diction-universal of Larousse, art 

 nougat.) H. Ddpret. 



Quebec, Canada. 



We are under obligation again to one of the brothers — 

 really we can't get along very well without their help, many 

 times — for helping us out in the candy business. France is 

 the original home of nougat candy, and Mr. Dupret is evi- 

 dently a Frenchman, so the recipe may be relied on. Just 

 what is meant by " wafer " is a question. Probably those 

 weetened affairs like miniature cookies made very thin. But 

 I think the nougat candy formerly sold in this country was 

 made without any wafers. 



Successes and Failures— Wintering-. 



I have been intending for a long time to write you of 

 our success, once again, with the bees. For several years 

 we have not had a crop of honey, some years the failure be- 

 ing caused by spraying apple-trees while in bloom. The 

 bees would, apparently, be in good condition — hives full of 

 bees — but suddenly, almost, the brood would be left unpro- 

 tected, as if the bees had all swarmed, while we knew none 

 had cast a swarm. 



Failure of clover to bloom the last few years, caused by 

 winter-killing, has been our latest failure ; also cool weather 

 in June, just when the clover ought to be yielding honey, if 

 we get it at all. 



The past season was abundant in clover and other flow- 

 ers. I think I never saw honey come in more abundantly 

 for 6 weeks ; such swarming ! I suspect we may always ex- 

 pect swarming when honey is coming in freely — such has 

 been our experience when running colonies for comb honey. 

 The colonies run for extracted we generally choose from the 

 weakest ones, and build them up from the swarming colo- 

 nies, so we do not get so many swarms from those until after 

 they have built up, and we take away their full combs to. ex- 

 tract, or give them sections and then they are almost sure 

 to swarm ; but extracted honey does not sell so readily as 

 comb, and then it seems to me to be about as much trouble 

 to get as comb. 



I have been so driven with work that I failed to finish 

 this letter, commenced over a month ago. Our bees have, 

 I think, wintered fairly well, only 2 colonies dead out 80, 

 and they were queenless ; but it is too early to know how 



