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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Oh yes, who are the folks that we see? 

 Look jnst this side of the main tower, and 

 yon will see Mr. Hunt's head. He is wear- 

 ing a cap and a full beard. The next one 

 this way is his boy, Elmer. I don't know 

 who stands back of Elmer, but I feel quite 

 sure that the young man down at this end is 

 a young man living near friend Hunt's. 

 He came and helped in putting up the ex- 

 hibit. "He is a genius," — so says our genial 

 friend Hunt. 



H. D. Cutting was superintendent, J. H. 

 Larrabee awarded the premiums. Dr. A. B. 

 Mason and E. R. Root were visitors at the 

 same time and the whole "coterie" 

 us gathered one evening on a little balcony 

 overlooking the grounds where we could 

 look down upon a babel of sights and sounds. 

 Below us was the great "bank" of boilers 

 that furnish steam to run the big engine 

 and the power to drive the dynamos making 

 electricity with which to turn night into day. 

 When the firemen swung back the furnace 

 doors the ruddy glow from the coal fire 

 came up and illuminated such a row of hap- 

 py, smiling, aminated faces that it seems to 

 me are seen only where a few bee keepers 

 are gathered together. 



SHALL WE RAISE 8TJGAE HONEY? 



Last spring I cut off the discussion upon 

 this question because even its bare mention 

 caused so much excitement that it seemed 

 impossible to reason coolly or secure fair 

 decisions. Recently published reports 

 showing that even the best chemists and a 

 class of forty students could detect no differ- 

 ence between "sugar-honey" and the best 

 honey from basswood and clover have again 

 brought the subject to the surface. If, 

 as Mr. Hasty has said, sugar honey gratifies 

 the eye, tickles the palate and nourishes the 

 body, if it fulfills every requirement of 

 floral honey, if as Prof. Cook says it is honey 

 why need it not become a legitimate pro- 

 duct of the apairy? 



Opposition to discussion has been urged on 

 the ground that sugar honey could be produc- 

 ed only at a loss. "If it can't be raised profita- 

 bly, why discuss its production?" "Let some 

 one raise a pound of sugar honey at a profit, 

 just one pound, 'they' said, and then — per- 

 haps." These were some of the expressions 

 used. To settle this point I have been ex- 

 perimenting a little the past season. From 

 the feeding of 1.50 pounds of sugar I have 



secured 135 pounds of finished-comb honey. 

 The sugar cost .f 7.,50; the honey would cer- 

 tainly sell for $20.00. This honey has been 

 awarded first premium at fairs, been fur- 

 nished to neighbors and placed before vis- 

 itors, yet its origin has never been suspected. 

 This has been done simply as an experi- 

 ment, and has completely proved what I al- 

 ready believed to be true. 



Now if sugar honey can be raised at a 

 profit, if it is really and truly honey, I ask 

 in all seriousness and earnestness what are 

 the objections to its production and sale? 

 There is no occasion for indulging in florid 

 rhetoric and exclamation points, simply lay 

 aside preconceived notions, allow reason to 

 reign supreme, and coolly and calmly say 

 why this extention of the bee keeping indus- 

 try would be wrong or work any injury to 

 the pursuit. 



I think there is no better time than the 

 present in which to settle the question and I 

 propose to devote the November Review to 

 its discussion. Prof. Cook's article will 

 answer for a "leader" — a much better one 

 than I could write. 



eXTRT^OXEO. 



Displaying Advertisments. 



After working as the Review has to induce 

 advertisers to pay more attention to their 

 advertising, to the wording, "get up", and 

 display of their announcements and to 

 changing them frequently, it is very encour- 

 aging to see an influential journal like 

 Gleanings falling into line as it does in the 

 following clipped from the last issue: — 



"Neat and novel display is one of the im- 

 portant requisites in advertising; and to help 

 our patrons we are always glad to offer our 

 suggestions or to submit proofs of advertis- 

 ments, free of charge. As a general thing if 

 our customers will allow us to use our own 

 judgement as to display, not cramping us too 

 much in space, we can suit them better than 

 to try and carry out a certain style that they 

 have in mind. We have a good many adver- 

 tisers who have been with us for years; and 

 if there are any of these who would like to 

 see proofs of their advertisements reset ac- 

 cording to our own ideas of display, we will 

 send them free of charge. An advertisement 

 ought to be changed occasionally, else it 

 becomes worn out and people do not see it." 



I most heartily endorse every word of the 

 above and add that I, too, would be more 



