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THE AMERICAN BEE JOLHlMAL. 



May 26, 1904. 



jectionable quality of the honey. She tells about it in the 

 American Bee-Keeper. Any part of the honey intended for 

 table use she puts on the stove and heats for at least six 

 hours, but never hotter than to allow the hand to remain in 

 it. The scum is removed, and this honey then has a caramel 

 flavor, preferred by some to other honey. 



But for cooking^ purposes she much prefers this acid 

 honey raw. She says : 



1 make all fruit-ealies and plum-puddings from it, and every one 

 who eats them is sure to ask how they are made, and of what. I 

 always use soda instead of baking powder, and as honey-cake must be 

 baked slowly, that is much better, because it is slower to fall than the 

 baking powder. 



The acid and soda make a complete raising combination, and is 

 very much ahead of baking powder, and is very cheap, too. 



The cakes and puddings made from this honey would keep lor 

 months, and improve every day. For bakers' use, it would be the 

 cheapest and best of any honey, for no cream-ot-tartar would be 

 needed in using it, and that is the most costly part of baking powder. 



Recipe for Making- Honey-Cookies. 



One quart of honey, half-pound of white sugar, half- 

 pound of butter, juice of two lemons. Stir this mixture 

 very hard, then mix in slowly flour to make stiff paste. Cut 

 into round cakes, and bake in buttered pans. — Mrs. J. V. 

 Wood, in Chicago Record-Herald. 



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Nasty's Afterthoughts 





The " Old Reliable '', seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. 

 By E. K. Hastt, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. 



STICKING COMB FODNDATION WITH PASTE. 



Arrah, there, now I With propolis and beeswax of our 

 own haven't we stick-'ems enough without going outside. 

 Here's a Colorado chap that must needs set his foundation 

 with paste.' If he will do so, and likes to see the frames 

 standing around waiting for the paste to dry, I don't see 

 what the rest of us are going to do about it. Page 206. 



FREK-H.\NGING FRAMES. 



Most of us, having given our adhesion to movable 

 frames, want to " go the whole pig " and have them mov- 

 able in reality. The experts stand 17 to 10 on the question. 

 Most of the minority are largely influenced by the fact that 

 they want their hives easily ready to haul by wagon. And 

 presumably most of the majority would vote on the other 

 side if they expected to haul their hives about. So prac- 

 tically the agreement all around is more complete than 

 usual. Page 213. 



BEK-KBKPING AND FISHING. 



" Did you ever go a-fishing ?" (Repartee as excuse for 

 being a bee-keeper when it is presumed that some other 

 vocation would bring in more money.) So walk up and 

 down among thy bees that every day will be a go-a-fishing 

 day — 



So Shalt thou live some added years ; 



So Shalt thon find more smiles, less tears; 



So slip some slaver's galling gears, 

 Yum, yum! 



Why wish a little more of glittering tin 



With modern wage conditions all thrown in? 



BEE-KEKPERS AND HIVE-KEEPERS. 



And so our genial Dr. Peiro was one of those who got 

 pinched in this last long and cruel winter. Despite his 

 whilom assertion that he wasn't built for a missionary, 

 we'll use him for just that. All ye'uns who were bee-keep- 

 ers last fall and hive-keepers this spring, do as the good 

 missionary tells you on page 237. 



EXTRACTING FROM BXCLUDERLESS HIVES. 



On page 231, C. Davenport makes a good fight against 

 the pestilent habit of extracting (June and July extracting, 

 that is) from hives with no excluders. Good point where he 

 calls attention to the fact that the queen once up in the 

 third story doesn't go down worth a cent, and that the bot- 

 tom story is in part deprived of its usefulness on that 

 account. 



ROCKEFELLER AND THE GLUCOSE BUSINESS. 



I wonder if it's true that Rockefeller has gone into the 

 glucose business, or whether the scribe of the Philadelphia 

 Public Ledger has been "seeing things." I reckon it 

 makes very little difference to us. The financial strength 

 of the questionable industry has long been very great. 

 Page 243. 



WINTER LOSSES — EAGER BEGINNERS. 



Fourteen colonies of bees last fall, and now down to 

 two — March and April still to reckon with ; — a job lot of 

 appropos-to-nothing hives last fall — condemned during the 

 winter and some regular ones built. So hops, skips and 

 jumps the eager beginner — shedding sage advice all the 

 while quite contrary to his doings. (Few bees, and learn 

 the business well first.) Old story — and it's tolerably safe 

 to presume that he will nevertheless be one of the heavy 

 bee-keepers of five years hence. Page 254. 



PAPER PACKAGES FOR GRANULATED HONEY. 



The paper package for granulated honey will have to 

 be tried by a great many persons in a great many localities 

 before we know just what to expect of it. The number of 

 different ways which candied honey can contrive to behave 

 is very large. Only two days ago I had use for a 60-pound 

 lot. It had been dry and firm for several months, and I 

 supposed it so still. It proved to be somewhat mushy, quite 

 too much so for a paper casing. Page 259. 



THE WATER CAPACITY OF HONEY. 



Allen Latham's experiment is "worth its keep " be- 

 cause some folks can not feel comfortable to accept the off- 

 hand conclusions of practical men. Mr. L. gives them the 

 thing with a scientific flavor to it. So 5 grams of honey 

 became 7 grams in 19 days of exposure to artificially moist- 

 ened atmosphere ; and then it came back to its proper 

 weight again in somewhat less than 9 days of exposure to 

 an artificially dried atmosphere. At off-hand judgment we 

 incline to say that honey is more ready to draw moisture 

 than it is to dry out. The experiment rather seems to show 

 the contrary — will keep on slowly concentrating if we give 

 it half a chance. To take honey which already has some 

 water and introduce an additional two-fifths of water is a 

 pretty high degree of dilution. Of course, what's true of 

 grams is also true of pounds ; so a 5-pound pail of honey 

 put through the same process would become a 7-pound pail 

 of honey, 2 pounds of weight coming from the air. Page 

 261. 



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Dr. Miller's Answers 





Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal, 

 or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



Requeening a Strong Colony. 



If 1 kill the queen in a strong colony of bees they will, of course, 

 start queen-cells. After a lew days, when 1 want to introduce a new 

 queen, will it be necessary to go over all the frames and destroy the 

 cells? Or, if I did not, would they swarm? I would think a young 

 (jueen wouldn't, but I think an old one would. If one could save 

 handling 8 or 10 frames it is quite an item in a busy time. 



Wisconsin. 



Answer. — If the cells are left, the bees might and might not 

 swarm; but to be on the safe side the cells should be destroyed. 

 Besides, a strange queen is more likely to hare a kindly reception if 

 the bees have nothing in the hive upon which they can rest any hopes 

 of a future queen of their own rearing. 



Keeping and Using Moldy Combs. 



1. I had 11 colonies of bees last tall, and have lost all but 2; all 

 had honey, but the combs were some moldy, and are more so now. 

 What can 1 do wiih them to keep them from molding more? Is there 

 any danger of moths getliug into them? If so, how can I prevent 

 them? 



2. Would it be all right when a swarm issues to hive them on those 

 combs? Would they be likely to stay all right, or would they be dis- 

 gusted and swarm out? Maine. 



Answers.— 1. The best thing is to give them into the care of the 

 bees, but with 9 dead out of 11, it is hardly practicable to give them 



