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Glared that the npeuiuy of honey does not 

 increase its aroma, but rather decreases it." 

 Yes, I made the above statement then, and 

 repeat now that the ripening of houey, 

 whether carried on in the hive or outside 

 the hive, lessens its aroma. Every honey 

 producer knows that at no time is the aroma 

 of houey so pronounced as v^hen just stored. 

 Mr. Hasty himself seems to believe this. I 

 am at a loss to know what classes of flowers 

 his bees collect honey from, for he says, 

 " with few conspicuous exceptions nectars 

 do not taste tit to eat when freshly brought 

 in." Honey when freshly brought in may 

 and often does lack body, but at no subse- 

 quent time does it possess in the same de- 

 gree the characteristic aroma of the flowers 

 from which it is collected. It will be strong 

 and pronounced, or mild and delicate, in 

 proportion to the strength or mildness of 

 the scent in the flowers that secrete it; this 

 becomes dissipated in time if exposed; not 

 even the wax cap of the cell will prevent its 

 escape. White clover has not a strong 

 scent, neither has basswood bloom. The 

 aroma of white clover and basswood honey 

 has, in consequence, a scarcely perceptible 

 aroma, while honey collected from the pep- 

 permint plant has the strong, pungent odor 

 peculiar to that plant, and I repeat that all 

 these are lessened in a degree by the process 

 of curing. Mr. Hasty virtually admits this 

 himself, but propounds the novel theory that 

 the bees absorb or api)ropriate this property 

 and restore it to the honey in a non-volatile 

 form. Is this theory "sleepily promulga- 

 ted? " Or can he furnish a reason for the 

 faith that is in him? He asks, "is it not 

 usually the case with any sample of honey 

 that its flavor is the joint result of two 

 flavors? " I think it is the joint result of 

 flavor and aroma, the former manifesting 

 itself throuirh the sense of taste, the latter 

 through that of smell, but the aromatic 

 property of a plant or flower will be mani- 

 fest as a part of its flavor by those who pos- 

 sess the sense of taste and smell; if, how- 

 ever, one has entirely lost the sense of smell 

 he may still enjoy the flivorof what he eats, 

 but it would be flavor without aroma. 



When Mr. Hasty puts his nose over a cup 

 of freshly brewed tea he gets its aroma; 

 when he tastes it he gets its flavor with some- 

 thing of its aroma, too. It he smells a rose 

 he gets its aroma; if he chews its petals he 

 gets its flavor. 



( )WEN Sound, ( )nt. July 2, WM. 



A Protest From Mr. Newman. 

 San Fkanoisco, Calif., June 30, 1897. 



Fbiend Hutchinson: — I am surprised at 

 the malignity displayed by Dr. Mason and 

 others towards me, charging me with "dis- 

 honesty " and heavens knows what, simply 

 out of spite and chagrin. 



I have made a report every year, just in 

 the same way exactly. It has been the " Re- 

 port of the General Manager," not Report 

 of the Advisory Board. That board is only 

 advisory to determine what cases shall be 

 defended. [See the constitution.] The 

 manager is " general manager" as long as 

 he holds that position — and no amount of 

 abuse will change it, either. I do not want 

 the position — and never did — and shall be 

 glad to be relieved when the votes so decide. 

 Until then "it's no use your kicking." I 

 shall serve the Union faithfully. 



Yours sincerely, 



Thos. G. Newman. 



Notes From Foreign Bee Journals. 



F. L. THOMPSON. 



BIENEN-VATER.— Numerous instances 

 of the success of Lichtenthaeler's 

 "natural" method of curing foul brood 

 have been reported. By a previous report 

 this was simply removing the infected por- 

 tions of the combs, then severely contract- 

 ing. It appears now, however, that formic 

 acid is to be sprinkled, and the colony abun- 

 dantly ''ed, and that the method is not rec- 

 ommended for colonies which have more 

 than one-third of the brood disease. 



Swallows were a great nuisance in the 

 apiary of Herr Rumler. especially on cloudy 

 days and in the fall, but a dead swallow on 

 a pole stopped their visits efifectnally. There 

 seems to be no doubt that they destroy 

 workers as well as drones, though they 

 apparently prefer the latter. 



Those who depend on sprinkling with 

 scented liquids in uniting will save trouble 

 by following Editor Weippl's suggestion 

 that a piece of any strongly smelling sub- 

 stance, such as musk or camphor, placed 



