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-THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



ment, of course, with the reservation that in 

 such adulteration a considerable quantity of 

 glucose is added, at least more than five per 

 cent. It is apparent to every one that there 

 would be no advantage to a dealer to take 

 the trouble of mixing glucose with his honey 

 if he only added five or ten per cent. The 

 usual extent of the adulteration is from fifty 

 to one-hundred per cent., that is to a honey 

 composed exclusively of glucose. The ex- 

 amination of the honeys reported in Bulletin 

 i:i. Fart 6, shows that out of five hundred 

 samples, purchased in all parts of the United 

 States, over forty per cent, were adulterated 

 with glucose. Of the remaining samples 

 there is a strong presumption that some were 

 adulterated with invert sugar but they were 

 passed as pure on account of the imperfec- 

 tions in the chemical methods for detecting 

 adulteration of this kind. 



Hoping that all who are interested in pure 

 honey can work together in the labor of stop- 

 ping adulteration, I am. 



Respectfully, 



H. W. AViLEY 



Ghemist. 



Eleven years ago Prof. Wiley was thor- 

 oughly convinced that artificial comb honey 

 was being put on the market. He now well- 

 knows that he was in error, but as thorough- 

 ly believes that nearly one-half of the ex- 

 tracted honey on the market is adulterated, 

 or to be more exact, he believes that nearly 

 one-half of the samples that have lately been 

 analyzed, are impure, but the near future 

 may decide that he is again mistaken. Of 

 course, it is understood that he reached the 

 latter conclusion upon different evidence 

 than that upon which the former was drawn. 

 It must also be remembered that Prof. 

 Wiley is not alone in his conclusion as to the 

 impurity of the samples analyzed. Other 

 chemists have done much of the work. The 

 point is right here: are the component parts 

 and proportion of parts of honey as laid 

 down in chemical works, correct? 



There is no doubt that the severe criticism 

 that Prof. Wiley has received has been hard 

 to bear, but not more so, perhaps, than his 

 tardy and reluctant admission of error. 

 That assertion in regard to artificial comb 

 honey damaged the bee keeping industry, 

 and Bulletin l.S, part (5, will follow in its 

 wake. Considering this, it is not surprising 

 that bee keepers have a " prejudice " against 

 Prof. Wiley. I sincerelyhope that Prof's. 

 Wiley and Cook and everyone else who can 

 throw light on this vexed question, will at- 

 tend the next meeting of the North Amer- 

 ican; and let prejudice and personal likes 

 and dislikes be laid aside for a desire to ac- 

 cept the truth. 



EXTRKOTEO. 



Manipulation Mast be Lessened. 



Father Langstroth is again having a spell 

 of freedom from his brain trouble, and he 

 has made a visit to Medina, ( )hio. From an 

 account of this visit, appearing in Glean- 

 ings, I make the following extract. 



" it was interesting to see how he enjoyed 

 talking about bees and the later improve- 

 ments. In fact, he was more enthusiastic 

 than many of the younger bee-keepers. In 

 spite of the fact that age is usually con 

 servative, Mr. Langstroth seemed to 

 be thoroughly alive to the value and im- 

 portance of the later improvements. To 

 illustrate , said he, with his old time fervor, 

 ' If money is to come from honey, manipu- 

 lation must be reduced to a minimum.' He 

 endorsed the idea of handling hives more 

 and frames less ; of using out-apiary hives ; 

 hives with self-spacing frames : hives that 

 can be manipulated on the plan hinted at in 

 the quotation. He still thought the new, 

 Heddon hive best for the expert and ad- 

 vanced bee-keeper ; but he did not believe it 

 would ever come into general use with be- 

 ginners and those farmers who keep only a 

 few bees. For the mass of bee-keepers, the 

 self-spacing Langstroth frame and system 

 would be used." 



How to Make Swarms Cluster in one or 



Two Places. 



And still we progress. Instead of having 

 swarms cluster here and there and every- 

 where they may be induced to cluster in the 

 exact spot desired. O. R. Coe tells, in 

 Gleanings, how this may be accomplished, 

 and I never copied an article with more 

 pleasure. He says : — 



" In the matter of hiving swarms I can 

 now swing my hat and cry ' Eureka ! ' I 

 have no further use for hiving-box and en- 

 ameled-cloth apron that have served me so 

 well in the past. This is how I do it now : 

 I have several boxes made as Doolittle rec- 

 ommends in making nucleus colonies in 

 which he confines the bees. Mine are made 

 about six inches square, and 13 inches long. 

 Two sides are made of wire cloth, one which 

 I can remove at pleasure. I have a 31.3-inch 

 hole on top of the box, in which the funnel 

 tits, and through which I shake the bees 

 into the box. Doolittle recommends taking 

 combs with bees on, and placing them out- 

 side the hive to let the bees till themselves 

 with honey ; but I have found a better way. 

 ( )n the inside of the board that forms the 

 bottom of the box I nail four strips % inch 

 square, so as to make a little trough 3 inches 

 square and '^h inch deep : and over this 

 trough, in the top of the box, I make an 



