1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



523 



find the attacks do not come from any par- 

 ticular colony, to move the whole apiary; 

 but in that case, of course, you would have 

 to take them at least a mile and a half. — 



Ed.] 



poisoned brood. 



I send you a box of dead brood. Please 

 give me a diagnosis of it if you can. This 

 ■disease has troubled us three years. If it 

 is pickled brood, what is the best method to 

 get rid of it? J. H. Allen. 



Arden, W. Va., May 11. 



[The sample of brood you sent does not 

 appear to be foul brood, pickled brood, nor 

 black brood. It seems to us like poisoned 

 brood. I should judge that some one had 

 been spraj'ing trees while in bloom, in your 

 vicinity, with the result that the brood dies. 

 If this is the case you would be likely to 

 find some queens dead. Do I understand 

 that you have been troubled with this mal- 

 adj^ continuously for three years, or only 

 every spring for three j'ears? This will 

 help us determine whether it is poison or 

 not. — Ed.] 



OVERSTOCKING IN COLORADO. 



The Arkansas Valley Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation desires to say to you, and through 

 you to your readers, that, except in a very 

 few localities, this valley is overstocked to 

 such an extent that any increase will sen- 

 sibly augment the overstocking. In the last 

 few years the best located have had a de- 

 crease in averages of fully a half; and fur- 

 ther coming among us of bees from abroad 

 is not advisable, and by us not desired. In 

 all places not fully occupied, the natural 

 readjustment of apiaries will very soon fill 

 all spots. Early cutting of alfalfa is the 

 rule, and large tracts of land are being 

 turned to the raising of sugar be^ts, thus 

 further reducing pastur.^-T^ Our /)ssocia- 

 tion therefore desires to piU^e tb/r facts be- 

 fore your readers, and tXnresses the hope 

 that some good may come tfNcn this commu- 

 nication. 



Adopted as the unanimous expression of 

 this Association this 3d day of jvlay, 1902. 

 J. H. Wasson, Sec. 



Rocky Ford, Col., May 29. 



[I most cheerfully comply with the re- 

 quest, because I know the facts are as stat- 

 ed.— Ed.] 



WHY THE COMB-HONEY CANARDS GAIN SUCH 

 CREDENCE. 



It seems that a good many people believe 

 that comb honey is manufactured or imitat- 

 ed. Perhaps a reason for this belief is to 

 be found in the wrong treatment of honey 

 between the time it is taken from the hive 

 and that when it reaches the consumer, 

 mostly by keeping it in cellars or other 

 damp or impure places. For instance, a 

 grocer once asked me to taste his comb 

 honey; and where do you think he was 

 keeping it? Why, in the ice-box! 



Again, last winter a family, after eating 



a little of my comb honey, concluded that 

 comb honey is good eating; and as I had 

 none to sell they got some at their grocer's; 

 but, oh what a difference in taste! Natu- 

 rally they declared it to be imitation hon- 

 ey; and, when told that there was no such 

 thing, it was simply a case of a woman 

 convinced against her will, etc. Doubtless 

 the grocer's had been splendid honey when 

 taken from the hive, but had been kept in 

 some place not suited to it; therefore per- 

 haps it would be well for bee-keepers to la- 

 bel their honey something like this: 



Keep this honey some place beneath the sky 

 Where the air is pure and where it's also dry. 



Davenport, la. A. Greve. 



[A most deplorable ignorance is display- 

 ed by many of the storekeepers, and even 

 by some bee-keepers, in this matter of keep- 

 ing comb honey. Just to-day I answered 

 an inquiry as to whether comb honey should 

 not be stored down cellar or in cold storage 

 to keep it away from bee-moth. There are 

 hundreds of bee-keepers who can't afford 

 (?) to buj' a bee-book or a bee-paper who 

 are throwing away every year the price of 

 ten book or of all the bee journals in the 

 worlc" combined, just because they think 

 they "know it all." Comb honey should 

 be kept in a uniformly dry warm tempera- 

 ture, and should be sold within a year, at 

 least, from the time it was taken from the 

 hive. — Ed.] 



LABELING HONEY. 



I notice in Gleanings, page 434, a dis- 

 cussion on labeling comb honey. I will 

 give a little of my experience. Last fall I 

 had about 1100 lbs. I sold some of it at 

 two groceries at 12j^ cts., stamped like this: 

 I found it sold so 



well that I got 15 «• s. stout, 



cts. for the next BEES AND HONEY, 



lot, which they Auburn, N. Y. 



sold at 18 cents, 



and the last lot I held until the holidays 

 and received 17 cts. for it, and my dark 

 honey retailed for 15. and at the saine time 

 the largest store in the city sold their white 

 for 12 and 15 cents. R. S. Stout. 



Auburn, N. Y. 



LABELING COMB HONEY. 



Referring to pages 434, 435, about label- 

 ing honey, a few words. Five years ago I 

 had a fair crop of section honey which I 

 sold mostly to private families; but from 

 the start I stamped every section with my 

 full address. Two years ago, when I had 

 not much of a crop, I could not supply all 

 the customers. One day a inan stopped me 

 and said, " How is it that you can't bring 

 me anj'^ honey? Isn't my money as good as 

 other people's? " 



"Well, Billy, the truth is I haven't any 

 more honey; but I think you can get all j'ou 

 want in the store. There is some nice sec- 

 tion hone}-." 



" No," he said; " I have tried that, but I 

 don't want it. If it is as good as yours, 



