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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 1 



that we have we consider to be people who 

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 But according to a I'ecent ruling of the Post- 

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HOW THE PURE-FOOD LAW WORKS. 



The following excerpt from the Detroit 

 Free Press will explain as well as any thing 

 can just how the pure-food laws help the 

 honey-producer: 



LOOK FOB " NEAH HONEY;" MANY BARRELS OF 



SPURIOUS PRODUCT CONFISCATED BY FEDERAL 



OFFICERS. 



Acting upon instructions from Washington. Deputy 

 United States Marshals Cassius P. Taylor and Duncan 

 Lyons started out yesterday afternoon to seize large 

 quantities of " near honey," which is said to have been 

 passing for genuine strained honey with many whole- 

 sale users of the article in Detroit and other cities 

 throughout the country. 



The manufacturers of the alleged spurious article 

 are said to be Rogers & HoUoway, of Philadelphia, 

 and it is in a crusade against the manufacture of what 

 is said to be a mixture of cane and honey that the 

 seizures are being made in many places. 



Eight barrels of the stuff were found in one factory, 

 where it has been used in composition with other ar- 

 ticles; six barrels in possession of a commission mer- 

 chant; nine barrels at another manufacturing plant, 

 and 200 cases of fifty pounds each at still another fac- 

 tory. 



This composition, if sold to the public, is in violation 

 of the federal pure-food law. The quantities confis- 

 cated in this city will be held pending the outcome of 

 the case against the manufacturers. w. k. m. 



CORN STRUP VERSUS GLUCOSE. 



Apparently the glucose people have won 

 out in their contention— that is, the privilege 

 of calling glucose "corn syrup." When Dr. 

 Wiley and his associates rendered an ad- 

 verse decision, the glucose interests bom- 

 barded the Board of Food and Drug In- 

 spection, Secretary Wilson and President 

 Roosevelt, asking for a reversal of the rul- 

 ing. A decision has finally been rendered, 

 favoring the glucose interests, all the mem- 

 bers of the Board of Food and Drug Inspec- 

 tion agreeing, including Secretary Wilson, 

 Cortelyou, and President Roosevelt. Dr. \Vi- 

 ley alone dissenting. We are surprised at 

 this, because if the anti-glucose interests had 

 put in a strong protest the result would have 

 been different. 



We suppose this means that the glucose 



interests may continue to label their product 

 "corn syrup," which name has not obtained 

 such an unsavory reputation as glucose. 

 The bee-keepers of the country made a vig- 

 orous protest, but, apparently, without ef- 

 fect. After all, it will be only a question of 

 time when it will be discovered that "corn 

 syrup" is no more palatable than the same 

 thing under the old name — glucose. 



the DEATH OF TWO VETERAN BEE-KEEPERS. 



In our last issue, in the department of 

 Special Notices we announced the death of 

 the veteran Henry Alley, practically the last 

 representative of the early days of modern 

 bee-keeping in the United States. We re- 

 gret to record also the death of the veteran 

 E. France, father of N. E. France, General 

 Manager of the National Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. He was 84 years of age at the time 

 of his death, the same taking place on Feb. 

 7. at 9 A.M. He was quite a prominent 

 writer for Gleanings in the early 80's. We 

 hope to be able to give an extended sketch 

 of both, perhaps in our next issue. 



liquefying candied comb honey with- 

 out melting the combs. 



We are experimenting on a method which 

 we hope will enable us to liquefy honey can- 

 died in sections without at the same time 

 melting the combs. 



The plan involves nothing more nor less 

 than keeping the sections of candied honey 

 at a temperature of 100 or 102 degrees for a 

 week at a time. A fonr-days' test of sections 

 placed in a large incubator set at a temper- 

 ature of 102 shows that the honey is rapidly 

 liquefying without destroying the combs. 

 We hope that, in a few more days, the honey 

 will be perfectly liquid and the combs intact. 

 Of course, where the cappings are cracked 

 there will be nothing in particular gained in 

 bringing tae honey back to a liquid condi- 

 tion. 



The principle can be carried out on a 

 large scale by constructing a room and hav- 

 ing the same heated by means of a steam 

 coil or coils, or a furnace. The temperature 

 of the room must be uniform in every por- 

 tion, and uniform throughout the day, and 

 it must not go above 102 degrees. 



Do not jump to the conclusion that this is 

 going to prove to be an unqualified success. 

 We don't know. Just wait until the next 

 issue and we will tell you how it works. If 

 a success it will save hundreds — yes, thou- 

 sands—of dollars on comb honey made un- 

 salable by reason of candying. 



strawberries preserved in honey only. 

 We have just been eating some strawber- 

 ries preserved in nothing but honey, put up 

 by Mrs. Frank McGlade, Hebron, Ohio. 

 The jar from which we took the fruit was 

 labeled 1906; yet on this 11th day of Febru- 

 ary, 1908, there was not a particle of mold 

 on top. We are of the opinion that the ber- 

 ries would have kept several years longer. 



