1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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and is miscible in all proportions in water 

 and solutions of other sugars." 



As I have often said, one who desires to 

 get a certain amount of sweet can afford to 

 pay a good price, and really get the same 

 quantity of sweet for less money than by 

 paying a low price and yet paying dear 

 for what he does get. Years ago, A. I. 

 Root determined that grape sugar, a whole- 

 some article which he used to feed bees for 

 brood-rearing, even at the very low price it 

 then brought, was more expensive for its 

 sweetening power than ordinarj^ cane su- 

 gar. I suppose it is true that honey has 

 slightly less sweetening, for the money, 

 than ordinary cane sugar; but honey con- 

 tains the delicate aromas or flavors of the 

 flowers ; and, besides, it has a quality 

 about it that renders it more easily assimi- 



ers in the bee business, and in every wa}' 

 work hand in hand. It is true, there is 

 some disparity between their ages, but not 

 in hearts, for Dr. Miller has a young 

 heart, and takes care that the youngsters 

 don't leave him behind in the matter of 

 modern thought and progressive ideas. 



The picture shows that the " senior twin" 

 has advanced in years since our readers 

 last saw his kindly face. He has already 

 passed the threescore-and-ten mark, and is 

 to-day, June 10, 71 years old, or young, as 

 he insists on putting it. There is hardly a 

 man in all beedom who is as prolific a 

 writer as he. His communications appear 

 in several of the bee journals, especially 

 the American Bee Journal and our own; 

 and he reads nearly all the European as 

 well as the American bee papers. 



DR. C. C. MILLER AND EDITOR G. W. YORK. 



lated in the stomach. Honey, therefore, 

 has a place in the world of sweet peculiar- 

 ly its own, and always will have. It is the 

 first sweet that civilization ever knew, and 

 it is bound to hold its place in spite of the 

 glucosers' decoctions and the cane sugars, 

 which are of a comparatively recent intro- 

 duction. 



THE TWIN BROTHERS. 



I HARDLY need to introduce Dr. C. C. 

 Miller, and Editor George W. York, of the 

 American Bee Journal. Some little time 

 ago I received a photo of these twin broth- 

 ers. I say twin brothers. They are broth- 

 ers in politics, brothers in religion, broth- 



As to Mr. York, I well remember when 

 he took up the helm of the old A)nerican 

 Bee Journal, and how cautiously he assum- 

 ed the responsibility; but the long j'ears he 

 spent with Mr. T. G. Newman were not for 

 naught. The " Old Reliable " has contin- 

 ued to grow under his leadership until, if I 

 mistake not, it has reached a condition of 

 prosperity that it never knew before in its 

 history. 



Gleanings is never jealous of a rival; 

 but, " allee samee, " if the rival bee-papers 

 in the field were half as good as they are, 

 and our journal were twice as good as it is 

 — well, we might have twice the number of 

 subscribers. 



