THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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One OB TWO have written that they did not 

 exactly understand why the mercury should 

 stand lower in the wet bulb thermometer. 

 The philosophy of the matter is just this: 

 evaporation causes a loss of heat, hence the 

 drier the air the greater the evaporation, 

 the greater the loss of heat, and the lower 

 will go the mercury in the wet bulb ther- 

 mometer. 



HOW SHALL EXTEACTED HONEY BE KEPT ? 



Fay Kennell, of Rochester, N. Y., raises 

 extracted honey. He allows most of it to 

 become good and ripe before extracting, 

 then stores it in 2-gallon crocks and stacks 

 them up, with sticks between them, in a room 

 in the S. E. part of his house, adjoining the 

 kitchen. In some of the jars the honey be- 

 comes watery on top and he is obliged to 

 skim off this thin honey and melt up the rest, 

 and he would like to avoid this trouble. 

 What is there faulty in his management? He 

 wishes to know if there is some manner in 

 which he can thoroughly and quickly cure the 

 honey at the time of extracting. 



POBTBAITS AND BIOGBAPHIES. 



Suppose that when you were in attendance 

 at a bee keepers' convention you should, at 

 night, be given a room all by yourself. A 

 door from this room led into an adjoining 

 room, and, in some manner, you should learn 

 that this adjoining room contained another 

 bee keeper; and you should begin talking 

 with him through the transom over the door. 

 Now how much more pleasant it would be 

 if that door could be opened, and the bee 

 keeper be allowed to enter your room, where 

 you could sit by his side and see his face. 

 Then you would like to know where he lived, 

 how long he had kept bees, how many, how 

 much honey he had raised, what was his 

 hobby, etc., etc. By the use of portraits and 

 short biographical sketches, the Review is 

 going to try and ojjen that door — to bring 

 contributors and readers nearer together. 



A BOUNTY ON HONEY, 



Gleanings for Feb. 1st is almost a "special 

 number" on this subject. The subject is 

 well handled, and, to my mind, there is no 

 doubt that the bounty on sugar affects the 

 price of honey, and that, in justice, honey is 

 fully as much entitled to a bounty as is sugar. 

 Whether the giving of a bounty on sugar is a 

 good thing is another, and a much larger and 



more complicated question. It leads directly 

 to the tariff question, upon which the greatest 

 minds differ. A bounty on honey would 

 lower its price, yet leave just as much money 

 in the pockets of bee keepers. This would 

 help sales wonderfully. Personally, I think 

 that the giving of a bounty on sugar is a mis- 

 take, but it pinches US, and, as -I. A. Green 

 says: "We squeal and we ought to." Wheth- 

 er a bounty could be secured or not is still 

 another thing. I fear that the goverment 

 would answer that honey was already protect- 

 ed by a tariff. It was shown most conclu- 

 sivsly, in Gleanings, that the giving of a 

 bounty would not lessen adulteration, except 

 that it might so cheapen the product that 

 adulteration would be less profitable. 



THE SUGAB - HONEY DISCUSSION. 



With what appeared in the last Review 

 upon tins subject, I supposed the topic would 

 be dropped, but other journals have taken up 

 the matter and said so much that, in just- 

 ice to the Review, its correspondents and 

 myself, a little more space must be used in 

 puttii g the matter to rest. 



This has been the most trying ordeal 

 through which the Review has had to pass; 

 the worst feature being that nearly every one 

 jumped to the conclusion that the sugar- 

 honey was to be sold as floral honey with the 

 intent to deceive. Some of the other journals 

 even went so far as to accuse it of upholding 

 fraxicl and advising cbime. I am happy to 

 be able to say, however, that these charges 

 have been withdrawn. 



Mr. Hasty said, if the poor seasons continue, 

 we may be obliged to secure our honey by the 

 feeding of sugar. He then went on to show 

 that in one sense, and not a narrow one either, 

 it would be honei/; that the secretions of the 

 bees would change the cane sugar to grape 

 sugar, the same as they change the cane su- 

 gar of nectar into grape sugar. Mr. Hasty 

 then continued his argument to show that 

 floral honey would fill all the requirements of 

 such honey. It was handsome, wholesome 

 and palatable. 



When I read his article for the first time / 

 was shocked. I will admit it. I sat down at 

 once to prepare an argument against such 

 views. To my astonishment, I could not 

 combat them. They were simply unanswer- 

 able. I have watched so eagerly to see if 

 some one else could answer them. No one 

 has attempted it. It has simply been one 



