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VOL. XXXVIII 



DECEMBER 15. 1910 



NO. 24 



Editorial 



As usual, our index for the current year 

 will be inserted in the .Tan. 1st issue. Those 

 whose subscriptions expire with this num- 

 ber can have a copy of the index by mak- 

 ing request on a postal. 



METCALFE'S METHOD OF EXTRACTING. 



We would call attention to the very in- 

 teresting series of moving pictures by O. B. 

 Metcalfe, showing the method he employs 

 for taking olf his honey. This will be in- 

 teresting as well as valuable to the begin- 

 ner and the veteran. Right here we wish 

 to draw attention to two statements of Mr. 

 Metcalfe: 1, that it is not necessary to 

 brush or dislodge all the bees from the 

 combs; 2, taking all the combs off at one 

 operation and extracting them after they 

 are all off the hive. 



the new officers of the national 

 bee-keepers' association. 

 Word has just been received from Gen- 

 eral Manager X. E France, of the National 

 Bee-keepers' Association, that the officers 

 elected for the coming year are as follows: 



President. Geo. W. Yorli. Chicago, 111. 

 Vice-president, W. D. Wright, Altamont, N. Y. 

 Secretary, E. B. Tyrrell. Detroit, Mich. 

 General Manager. N. E. France, Platteville, Wis. 

 Directors, 1914.— J. A. Stone. Springfield, 111. 



O. L. Hershiser, Kenmore, N. Y. 



H. A. Surface, Harrisburg, Pa. 



We believe that all the above are strong 

 men who will make good officers for the 

 Association; but we feel that the bee-keep- 

 ers should be especially cong'atulated in 

 their choice of secretary, in Mr. E. B. Tyr- 

 rell. We happen to know that, in his work 

 as secretary of the State Michigan Bee- 

 keepers' Association, Mr. Tyrrell has dis- 

 tinguished himself in more ways than one, 

 and we are sure that the National, headed 

 by this list of officers, and with such a sec- 

 retary, will have one of the best years it 

 has ever known. 



HONEY-COOKING RECIPES. 



Occasionally some one mentions a 

 splendid recipe for making cake, cookies, 

 candy, etc., in which hi ney is used instead 

 of cheap s\ rups or molasses. In the ABC 

 and X Y Z of Bee Culture there is a good 

 collection of honey-cooking recipes, but we 

 are sure that there are many more in use 



that are not generally known. As we are 

 firm believers in the use of honey in cook- 

 ing we wish to get together a number of 

 new recipes that have not been published 

 heretofore. Accordingly, to any one who 

 will send us something new, which we can 

 use, we will extend his subscription to 

 Gleanings one year; or we will send post- 

 paid a copy of "How to Keep Bees," by 

 Anna B. Comstock, "The Townsend Bee- 

 book," "Alexander's Writings on Practical 

 Bee Culture," or "How to Keep Well and 

 Live Long," by T. B. Terry. 



Please let no one get the idea that honey 

 may be used indiscriminately in the place 

 of molasses or sugar, for instance. Some- 

 times a smaller or larger amount of honey 

 must be used, and occasionally both honey 

 and sugar give better results than either 

 one alone. Some recipes specifying honey 

 result in failure because they have not been 

 tested sufficiently to fix the right proportion 

 of the different ingredients. We wish only 

 those which have been tried and proven. 



Honey is already being used with grati- 

 fying results in canning and preserving 

 fruit, making all kinds of candy, sweeten- 

 ing cakes and cookies, baking bread, etc., 

 and the general public ought to know that 

 it is far superior to molasses and glucose 

 preparations. 



OUR ANTIQUATED METHODS OF SHIPPING 

 COMB HONEY, AGAIN. 



The more we think of the unscientific 

 way in which comb honey has been ship- 

 ped, the more we are surprised that the 

 method has been allowed to go on tht se 

 many years. Comb honey is an exceeding- 

 ly fragile commodity, especially when the 

 weather becon.es rather cold; and yet bee- 

 keepers for the last thirty years have been 

 shij)ping it in boxes or cases, without any 

 cushion to absorb the shock or jar sustained 

 by the delicate combs. It has been only 

 within the last year or so that we are begin- 

 ning to exercise common sense by using 

 corrugated paper in the bottom of the cases. 

 We ought, in fact, to use more of it, even 

 putting in cross-partitions of it, in the same 

 way eggs and bottles are packed. Then we 

 should see to it that the cases are put into 

 carriers having on their bottoms four or five 

 inches of straw. When a single shipping- 

 case is shipped by express, the case itself 

 ought to be packed in straw in another box. 



Who would ever think of sending eggs, 

 glassware, or delii ate chinaware in solid 

 wooden boxes without any straw or packing? 

 and yet that is exactly what we have been 



