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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAU 



July 7, 1904. 



Special Notice to Bee-l^eepers 



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daubed with honey. At times we also have 

 small quantities of honey that are off color or 

 for some reason not lit to offer for sale, and if 

 not needed to feed the bees, this is used by 

 mixing itwith the proper proportion of clean 

 water. All odds and ends of honey are used 

 this way. The barrel is placed in an out-of- 

 way position in the honey-house and a piece 

 of cheese-cloth thrown over it and a board 

 laid over this to keep it in pla^e, or else the 

 cloth is tied in place. We should aim to ex- 

 clude flies and all insects and yet expose it to 

 the air as much as possible. 



It the water is warm, fermentation will 

 set in in a few days, and in a weeli or two we 

 will find a thick scum on the surface of the 

 liquid. This I remove about every week or 

 ten days, or as often as it accumulates to a 

 considerable extent. Each time after remov- 

 ing the scum 1 take a dipper or cup and dip 

 out a cupful and pour it back from a height 

 of two or three feet. This I repeated some 

 ten or twelve times. It also hastens fermen- 

 tation if a quantity of mother from old vine- 

 gar is added. Some may claim that it is not 

 necessary to remove the scum, as it will An- 

 ally settle to the bottom of the barrel and do 

 no harm, but I once made a lot and neglected 

 to remove the scum and this \sas so bitter 

 that it was not fit for use, and I see no use 

 in having it in the vinegar when it can be so 

 easily removed. 



If the barrel or keg is removed to a warm 

 room on the approach of cool or cold weather, 

 the vinegar should be lit for use within six 

 months after the time it was made. When it 

 is finished it should be carefully dipped or 

 poured into a clean receptacle, or what is bel- 

 ter, draw it off with a hose, being careful not 

 to disturb the sediment at the bottom of the 

 barrel. When you have this you have an arti- 

 cle that you know is pure and good, and do 

 not have to go to your grocer and purchase 

 so-called " pure cider vinegar " that is likely 

 made of water and poisonous acids that are 

 not fit to be taken into the stomach. — S. E. 

 Miller, in Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



A Mistaken Doctor and Qlucose. 



Dr. Louis B. Allyn has an article in Good 

 Housekeeping, in which he says one of the 

 chief uses of glucose is for feeding bees. Now, 

 it seems so to us that the Doctor has been 

 wrongly informed. We think if he should 

 start out to hunt a man who makes a practice 

 of feeding glucose to bees that he would have 

 to hunt some time before he would find him. 

 Too many professional men are in the habit of 

 making unreliable remarks about an industry 

 of which they know but little except at sec- 

 ond hand. Glucose gets mixed with pure ex- 

 tracted honey a great many times, no doubt, 

 but the bees have nothing to do with the pro- 

 cess. It is done principally l)y unscrupulous 

 syrup manufacturers, so-called, after the 

 honey leaves the hands of the bee-keeper, and 

 doctors should know what they are talking 

 about before they put such remarks in print 

 on the pages of a popular and widely read 

 magazine. Such statements do no one any 

 good, and grossly misrepresent a growing and 

 valuable industry. — Modern Farmer and Busy 

 Bee. 



Comb Honey— Early Marketing. 



If the reader will look over our honey quota- 

 tions for the last three months he will see 

 that comb honey has been getting dull, duller, 

 dullest. The fact is, bee-keepers, not heeding 

 our injunctions, have been dilatory about get- 

 ling tlieir last year's crop on the market. A 

 great deal of it has been shipped M/if, the 

 holidays, when it should nlways be on the 

 market hefure. Last fall there was not enough 

 good honey to supply the market. All this 

 spring there has been a glut and falling 

 prices. 



Mr. Selser, one of the principal honey buy- 

 ers in the East (and his statement is rein- 

 forced by the principal buyers of the coun- 

 try), urges the importance of shipping all 

 Northern honey to market between Sept. 1 

 and Dec. 1. Clover and basswood should be 

 sold as soon as taken off the hive. There is a 

 time for a few days early in the season when 

 the first new honey brings a fancy price. It is 



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