JULY 1. 1915 



691 



v'ork in one small apartment tends to cause 

 tlie deposition of an excess of wax. This 

 may account for the presence of bnrr-combs 

 where sejiarators are used. Foundation is 

 not drawn out so thin where separators are 

 used, and bees with wax scales do not find 

 their way into another apartment so readily 

 as they would to an adjacent comb. The 

 honey is better cured in the non-separator- 

 ed super because tliere is more freedom for 

 ventilation and the area of work is greater. 



The next point (/) is worth careful con- 

 sideration. Twenty-eight seven-to-the-foot 

 beeway sections can be put where twenty- 

 four sejiaratored sections would go, and 

 thirty-two sections IV2 inches wide can be 

 put into the same space. It will thus be 

 seen that in a large apiary there will be 15 

 to 30 per cent fewer supers used to produce 

 the same number of sections than if sepai'a- 

 tois be used. 



As it is my experience that a colony will 

 complete a 28 or a 32 section super without 

 separators in about the same time that it 

 will a super of 24 sections where separatoi's 

 are used, it will be seen that from 15 to 30 

 per cent more crop will be produced if sep- 

 arators are not used. 



It is better for business for this reason: 

 Probably the chief thing that keeps the old 

 " manufactured comb honey " canard alive 

 is separatored honey. The casual observer 

 will not note the slight difference in the 

 sections of a fancy lot of separatored hon- 

 ey, and will readily think that it must have 

 been produced by machinery. The flat 

 board-like finish stamps the honey as arti- 

 ficial. Non-separatored honey, with its more 

 or less wavy comb surface, is so obviously 

 a natural product that no suspicion is 

 aioused. 



Such is my confidence in non-separatored 

 honey that I challenge the editor as follows : 

 I will this season select a super of comb 

 honey produced without separators, and 

 send it as it came from the hive to Dr. 

 Miller. The editor can do the same with a 

 super of separatored honej'. Dr. Miller can 

 pass judgment upon these two supers upon 

 two counts only — crating possibility of 

 each, and uniformity of weight of the in- 

 dividual sections. Color, flavor, etc., are 

 not to count at all. These two supers can 



tlien be sent to some orphanage or old folks' 

 Iiome, or a hospital, and the loser will ])re- 

 l)ay the charges. 



Each super must be sent just as it came 

 from the hive without sections being re- 

 moved before the super reaches the judge. 

 In case the season is a failure with either 

 of us, then the challenge is to be declared 

 off for the season. 



Nonvichtown, Ct. 



[There is one element that enters into this 

 controversy that you have not specifically 

 mentioned; and that is, the man. Our ar- 

 gument as given on page 616, Aug. 1, 1914, 

 was based on the kind of comb honey that 

 had come from the average beekeeper who 

 had tried to get along without separators. 

 On that point it was not a question of 

 llieory but of actual fact. So far as we 

 know, practically every honey-buyer in the 

 country has concluded that non-separatored 

 honey is a nuisance, because there is not 

 one man in a thousand who can produce 

 honey in this way so that it can be market- 

 ed either in shipping-cases or cartons. 



Our correspondent is an expert beekeeper. 

 We venture to say that in the contest that 

 he proposes he might win out; and that 

 brings up the question : We should like to 

 have him tell specifically how he can pro- 

 duce good comb honey without separators, 

 and show us a picture, or several of them, 

 showing a comb-honey super. Even after 

 he tells us how he does it, we venture the 

 assertion that most persons will make a 

 bungle of the job, and the resulting comb 

 hone,y will be anything but fit for market. 

 However, we are open to conviction, and, 

 like the proverbial man from Missouri, we 

 are willing to be " shown." 



In regard to his argument for the pro- 

 duction of non-separatored honey, we will 

 concede without argument points (a), (c), 

 {d), (e), if), (g). Then there remain (&) 

 and (h). If Mr. Latham is on the job of 

 producing a product, we might concede 

 (b) \ and if others can do as well as he does 

 we will concede (h). After all, the whole 

 question resolves itself down to the man and 

 the method; but we put more emphasis on 

 the former than on the latter. We shall 

 await with interest Mr. Latham's article 

 describing his method. — Ed.] 



HONEY AS FILLER FOR CHOCOLATE CANDY 



BY EDWARD HASSINGER 



Bj' cutting comb honey into cubes about 

 an inch in each dimension, letting them 

 drain on wire screen, and then coating them 



with chocolate, just as other candies are 

 made, one will have something that, in my 

 opinion, is equal to the finest candy made. 



