December, 1914- 



American ^ae Journal 



would probably not have made the 

 error. 



The cause of Miss Wilson's failure is 

 not so obvious, but 1 am willing to 

 venture the assertion that either she 

 did not get the bees into a state of dis- 

 tress—choky smoke plus close confine- 

 ment — or else the bees were in more 

 or less of a disturbed condition from 

 getting the old queen out. I say these 

 things advisedly because I know that 

 Dr. Miller's bees are "fighters" and 

 his hives are not smoke tight. 



Others, like Mr Hand, confuse my 

 method with the older smoke plan, and 

 so fail to follow the newer details. 



And right here for the benefit of 

 those who fail with my way as they 

 use it, or who fail with the old smoke 

 plan, let me call to their attention a 

 law of bee life known IbO or more 

 years ago, and cited by Langstroth in 

 18.53, that licfnly-t'oiir hours after a 

 queen is removed from a colony an- 

 other may be run in with scarcely any 

 precaution whatever, and her safe ac- 

 ceptance is assured. 



Now let me make a suggestion to 

 beekeepers in general, study the behav- 

 ior {actions) of the bees. Moses Quinby 

 was a marvel at it, and had his book 

 instead of Langstroth's been spread as 

 the latter's was, we would have seen a 

 much more advanced state of commer- 

 cial bee culture than now exists, and 

 this is no reflection on Mr. Langstroth. 

 Quinby was the father of commercial 

 beekeeping. He did with box-hives all 

 that many a big beekeeper accom- 

 plishes today with all the modern ap- 

 pliances. He was able to do much be- 

 cause he knew much, and furthermore 

 he possessed a wonderful ability to 

 analyze conditions and reason back 

 from effect to cause. Also he was able 

 to impart this information, and to 

 some extent his skill to others. 



Langstroth also knew much about 

 the bee, but his book being primarily 

 an exponent of his hive, led the readers 

 away from a study of bee actions to 

 appliances and manipulations, a con- 

 dition which Mr. Langstroth would 

 have been the last one to desire could 



he have foreseen it. Let us study 

 Quinby, re-read Langstroth, and then 

 turn to the bee and see how much 

 more we have to learn about her. 

 Providence, R. L 



["Carelessness of expression" as 

 mentioned by our sarcastic contribu- 

 tor is indeed one of the things most 

 combated by our experienced co- 

 worker, Dr. Miller, and I owe him 

 thanks for many criticisms which have 

 helped me to overcome the difficulties 

 of a language which is not my mother 

 tongue. So upon reading the above 

 satire, I at once referred the matter to 

 him, for his opinion as to what was 

 the nature of my error. He replies: 

 " I have studied over the passage that 

 A, C. M. cites, but cannot make out 

 what he refers to." Is comment neces- 

 sary ? — Editor ] 



Glucose Again 



BY DR. A. F. BONNEY. 



■ PICKED up an article in a daily 

 paper regarding a book written by 

 one "Doctor" Cutler, secretary of 

 the American Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion of Products from Corn. He was 

 formerly Dairy and Food Commis- 

 sioner of Missouri, and it recalled to 

 my mind recent attempts to advertise 

 honey, and to show honey producers 

 what we are up against when it comes 

 to selling our goods. I quote from it: 



The corn product people ca'mly as- 

 sert that the book has " been accepted 

 as a text," but neglects to state by 

 whom, but probably by the author, 

 " and the company is sending them out 

 free to schools that ask for them. 

 Already 100.000 copies have been dis- 

 tributed, and the Chicago office is kept 

 busy sending them out." 



Giving the reader a touch of chem- 

 istry, which is an unopened book to 

 nine hundred and ninety-nine out of 





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THE ITALIAN VKKTICAL MOVABLE KRAMK HIVKS.- Pari of the Visconti apiary. 



every thousand persons, he says: 

 " When some scientist, one of these 

 days, discovers how to take the extra 

 molecule of water out of corn sugar, 

 that makes it differ from cane sugar, 

 the beet and cane men no longer will 

 need to fight each other over tariffs, 

 for sugar will be very cheap. Every 

 corn field will be tlie source of tons of 

 sugar." Just two molecules of hydro- 

 gen and one of oxygen is all that lays 

 between glucose and the ruin of the 

 honey industry in the United States, 

 for with sugar at 2 cents a pound the 

 sale of honey would undoubtedly fall 



off 



The article goes on: "I wonder if 



many persons realize that there was 

 made in the United States last year 

 8(10,000,000 pounds of corn syrup." 

 (Glucose.) " The book, 'Corn and Its 

 Producis,' reveals the great uses of the 

 corn products. It is shown that 90 

 percent of the candy has glucose or 

 corn syrup in it." 



Eight hundred million pounds of 

 glucose. Eight pounds for each man, 

 woman and child in the United States. 

 The " profits " on honey will, as a rule, 

 represent merely pay for a man's time 

 a few weeks in the year. The price of 

 " corn syrup " was arbitrarily raised as 

 soon as the United States Pure Food 

 people allowed the manufacturers to 

 mislabel "Glucose" "Corn Syrup." 

 The profits are something that ap- 

 proaches highway robbery, and they 

 can well afford to send out books. 



This brings up the question again 

 of advertising honey. Can a man who 

 produces one, two or three hundred 

 dollars worth of honey afford to spend 

 even 5 percent of his incoine in adver- 

 tising ? Of course this is a small 

 amount of honey, but there are, I am 

 sure, more men in the United States 

 who produce less than $400 worth of 

 honey than there are who get more. 

 Dr. Miller once made a guess to the 

 writer that there were but about 200 

 professional beekeepers in the country, 

 and while it might be hard to find out 

 just how many there are whose princi- 

 pal income is from honey, the fact re- 

 mains that the annual consumption is 

 about 25 cents worth per capita. It 

 stands to reason that there is but little 

 margin in this to send out books, and 

 the worst about it is that for the most 

 of the year there is little or no honey 

 in sight. Honey should sell all the 

 time as does sugar, but for some strange 

 and unaccountable reason we are ex- 

 pected to get rid of our crop at once, 

 leaving the field to glucose messes the 

 rest of the year. 



We cannot advertise all the time be- 

 cause we have not the honey all the 

 time The Karo Kusses have glucose 

 all the time, and are increasing the 

 demand all the time. If the books they 

 send out cost .5 cents each, the 100,000 

 they mention represent an output of 

 $,")000 They will no doubt send out 

 $'>0,000 worth before they quit. Karo 

 sells for about S cents a pound, in cans, 

 and that meansabout$40,000,000. There 

 are no crop failures, no bees to die, no 

 several "grades" of the stuff, no short 

 season for sales, and because of this 

 they can afford to pay out a fraction of 

 one percent to advertise their wares. 



The writer has made a close study of 

 advertising, and has decided that there 



