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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15. 



market prices in the papers, or their names are 

 found therein, and all others should be avoided, 

 unless you wish to take your chances, or are 

 acquainted with them, and know that they 

 will deal fairly. Of course, the honey shipper 

 who doesn't take and read any of the bee-pa- 

 pers ought to get swindled, and deserves no 

 sympathy if he meets with a loss that might 

 have been avoided had ne been a subscriber to 

 one or more of the best bee-papers.— i^Jitoriai 

 i7i American Bee Journal. 



C. E. HoKKiE & Co., of Chicago, the firm I 

 referred to in our previous Issue, and also in a 

 footnote to one of the Straws in this issue, are 

 given a little " free advertising" in the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal. Last year this same firm, it 

 seems, quoted above the market, and for the 

 same reason, probably, they are doing so this 

 year. Referring to this, among other things, 

 the editor of the American Bee Journal says: 



When they mailed that letter, they know that the 

 best comb houey was bringing- not over V.i cents per 

 pound in a wholesale waj'. And yet they quoted 16 

 to 16 cents. Their scheme is, by quoting- high 

 prices, to get bee-keepers to ship them honey on 

 commission, which last year in a number of in- 

 stances iliey sold for about what they were offered, 

 and remitted the shii)per a net price of anywhere 

 from 7 to 10 cents a pound for white comh honey. 



SHALL WE EXTKACT AND FEED? 



In times gone by we have set it down as a rule 

 that it did not pay to extract white honey and 

 then feed the bees syrup afterward; that the 

 labor of extracting counterbalanced the differ- 

 ence in value between sugar syrup and extract- 

 ed honey. But is that true? At the very low 

 prices of granulated sugar, good winter syrup 

 can be made for 35^ or 4 els. a pound, and good 

 extracted honey brings anywhere from 5 to 6 

 cts. on an average, according to the honey mar- 

 ket published in our last issue.* The salvage, 

 though not great, is perhaps sufficient to war- 

 rant us, at least in some cases, extracting, more 

 especially as the syrup is "a better winter food 

 than honey; and, pound for pound, it goes far- 

 ther. It is agreed, I think, that a colony will 

 consume more pounds of honey than of syrup. 

 If the honey in the first place is amber or dark, 

 better let it remain in the brood-nest unless it is 

 vile enough to kill the bees. 



ANOTHER BUILDING FOR THE HOME OF THE 

 HONEY BEES. 



Notwithstanding the hard times all over the 

 country, we find it necessary to put up another 

 large building at the Home of the Honey-bees. 

 This covers the largest area of ground we ever 



* Honey Column for this issue is not made up at 

 the time of writing. 



built on, and is designed to hold a portion of 

 our dried lumber for sections. We have had 

 another smaller building for the purpose, but 

 this had long since grown inadequate for the 

 supply. Our lumber, as fast as it dries to the 

 proper point outdoors, slicked up, is to be put 

 into this large building, and piled up solid, and 

 held in reserve. Our object is, of course, to 

 keep a larger percentage of our lumber white; 

 for after it has become dry it is liable to be- 

 come badly checked and stained, and, if it 

 stands too long, half rotten. Moreover, dry 

 lumber wet by rain or snow is not as workable, 

 and does not make as nice sections as lumber 

 that is dry and which has been kept dry. 



The size of the new building is .52 x 120 feet, 

 and will hold comfortably 600,000 feet of bass- 

 wood lumber for sections. All the other build- 

 ings have been about 40x100. This makes the 

 sixth large building besides a number of other 

 small ones that go to make up the manufactur- 

 ing plant of the Home of the Honey-bees. 



THE USES OF HONEY. 



A VERY good article on the use of honey ap- 

 pears in the Ladies'' Home Journal. Among 

 other things are given a number of cooking- 

 recipes using honey, which I trust our lady 

 readers will try and report on. They are as 

 follows: 



HONEY FRUIT-CAKE. 



Four fggs, five c-jps of flour, two cups of honey, 

 one cup of butter, one cup of sweet miilc, two tea- 

 spoonfuls of cream of tartar, one leaspoonful of 

 soda, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, 

 half a pound of citron, one teaspoonful each of 

 cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Bake in a slow 

 oven. This cake will keep a long time. 



HONEY-COOKIES. 



One quart of honey mixed with half a pound of 

 white sugar, half a pound of butter, and the juice 

 of two lemons. Stir this mixture very hard, then 

 mix in gradually Hour enougli to make a stiff paste. 

 Cut into round cakes and bake in buttered pans. 



HONEY ginger-snaps. 



One pint of honey, three-quarters of a pound of 

 butter, two-teaspoonfuls of ginger. Boil together 

 for a few rninutes, and, when nearly cold, sift in 

 flour until it is stiff enough to roll. Cut in small 

 cakes and bake (juickly. 



HONEY SPONGE-CAKE. 



One cupful of honey, one cup ot flour, five eggs. 

 Beat the yolks and honey together: beat tlie whites 

 to a fiotli; mix all togetlicr, stirring as little as pos- 

 sible; flavor with lemon, and bake quickly. 



HONEY TEA-CAKE. 



One cup of honey, half a cup of sour cream, two 

 eggs, half a cup of butter, two cups of flour, scant 

 half teaspoonful of s(jda, one teaspoonful of cream 

 of tartar. Flavor to taste. 



HONEV POPCORN-BAI.LS. 



One pint of lioney. Put it in a frying-pan and 

 boil until very tliick, then stir in freshly parclied 

 corn, and mold into balls wlien nearly cold. 



The appearance of such an article in a jour- 

 nal of so wide a circulation and influence will 

 do not a little to stimulate the demand for hon- 

 ey. By the way, the Ladies' Home Journal 

 is a periodical that I always take pleasure in 

 recommending for its good morals and for the 

 valuable matter that it contains in each issue. 



