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Yes, I believe they do. (But, I am 

 not positive.) — W. M. Babnum. 



I could never see any difference, and 

 believe that there is none. — A. J. Cook. 



It is claimed that they do. I have 

 never experimented in that line. — Mrs. 

 J. N. Heater. 



They do if the feeding is done at the 

 proper season for them to secrete wax. 

 —J. P. H. Brown. 



I've had them pile white wax in the 

 corners of the feeder while being fed 

 sugar syrup.— C. C. Miller. 



They secrete wax fed on sugar, but 

 perhaps not to as great an extent as 

 they would if fed honey.— S. I. Free- 

 born. 



They secrete wax when feeding on 

 sugar syrup, but honey is a superior 

 article to produce wax in bees. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



They probably do, but I never fed 

 enough to find out. Considerable would 

 need to be fed before the bees would be- 

 gin wax secretion. — G. L. Tinker. 



If only a little is fed to promote spring 

 breeding, little or no wax will be 

 secreted. If sugar syrup is fed liberally 

 in warm weather, and it is necessary to 

 build comb, the bees will secrete the 



wax.— C. H. DlBBERN. 



4;oiitinHOii!!« A<lvertisins', even if 

 it be only a small announcemeut, pays the 

 advertiser the best in the long run. Spas- 

 modic advertising, like "spasms" of any 

 kind, is unsatisfactory. To secure the very 

 best results, year in and year out, you must 

 keep your name and business before the 

 public. Only by so doing can you hope to 

 keep from being forgotten when the time 

 comes that your would-be customers wish 

 to purchase what they want. 



Besides, in the fall of the year, more 

 agricultural papers send out large numbers 

 of samj)le copies, and the advertiser fails 

 to get the advantage of reaching the thou- 

 sands who get the free sample copies, un- 

 less he keeps his advertisement running all 

 the time. This is a matter worth thinking 

 about. Heed the lesson taught by that in- 

 telligent comb foundation firm, Chas. 

 Dadant & Son, and also others, whose ad- 

 vertisements are found in every nmnber of 

 the Bee Jouknal without a single miss. 



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Imm Coinl) Honey DiiEranulateJ. 



Written for tlie American Bee Journal 

 BY .JOHN F. GATES. 



I want to tell how I kept comb honey 

 one year without granulating, it being 

 better even than when first packed 

 away. I simply kept it up chamber. 

 Moth may sometimes get in it in sum- 

 mer, if not looked after once in awhile, 

 though this seldom has happened with 

 me. But I can keep it in such nice 

 shape this way, that I don't worry any 

 more about having granulated honey, 

 and I mostly "hang on" to quite a 

 quantity of my honey until spring, when 

 it sells very quickly. The fall market is 

 mostly spoiled by small lots of honey 

 being rushed forward, and a most serious 

 need has been to find a way to keep 

 comb ho ley in good condition until these 

 small lots have been disposed of. 



I have had large quantities of honey 

 almost ruined by turning watery, and 

 candied, when I thought I had it in a 

 good place on the first floor of my house. 

 I have tried keeping honey in many 

 places, and ways, but no place, so far, 

 will keep it like the chamber of my 

 dwelling-house, and as near the stove- 

 pipe as I dare to put it. Will bee-keep- 

 ers please try this up-stairs way of keep- 

 ing comb honey, and report their suc- 

 cess ? If they try it. they will. I think, 

 be sure to follow it, unless they have, or 

 find, a better way, which if they do, 

 please let us know through the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, for this question of 

 keeping comb honey over, I am inclined 

 to think, is one we will, in the near 

 future, have to solve, or lose heavily on 

 account of granulation. 



It seems comb honey must not only bo 

 kept dry, but warm, especially in winter, 

 and wo seldom keep a fire all winter in 

 any but our dwelling-house, though 

 those who wish to keep over much honey 

 and can't spare the room in their cham- 

 ber, can warm their honey-house. 



If I am not mistaken, it was Mr. D. A. 



