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them destroying their brood, some of 

 them starving to death. In such case it 

 would be very profitable to feed sugar 

 syrup for stores, even if sugar cost more 

 per pound than honey. For in some 

 cases ten cents worth of sugar would 

 have saved the life of a colony worth 

 many times as much. 



It doesn't greatly matter how much is 

 fed per day, only so they have enough 

 to bridge over the time of scarcity. 



But under no consideration would I 

 advise feeding sugar syrup to have the 

 bees put it in combs to be used or sold 

 as honey. With regard to the profit, 

 just figure a little. Of late years some 

 have gone out of the business of produc- 

 ing honey because there is not enough 

 profit in it. Now if they are not satis- 

 fied with the profit when the materials 

 for honey are entirely free, it will cer- 

 tainly be just so much worse if materials 

 have to be bought. In other words, if 

 the time and labor of feeding, together 

 with the sugar used, makes the syrup 5 

 cents a pound, then your honey will cost 

 you 5 cents a pound more than the 

 honey of the man who lets his bees find 

 their own honey. Indeed probably 

 more, for whatever the reason may be, 

 it Is generally agreed that only part of a 

 pound is stored for every pound fed, 

 whether the material fed be sugar syrup 

 or pure honey. 



Besides, if you want the honey for 

 your own use, it will be more convenient 

 to put the sugar syrup itself on the 

 table, without the trouble of feeding it 

 to the bees, for when they put it in the 

 combs it is still sugar syrup. You know 

 that honey varies greatly, according to 

 the material it is made of. Buckwheat 

 honey and clover honey are very unlike. 

 I have eaten honey that had a rank 

 taste and disagreeable smell, and I tasted 

 some at the World's Fair that didn't 

 taste very bad ^at first, but after some 

 minutes began to burn my throat as if I 

 had been eating wild turnips. So you 

 see it isn't like fi^eding a cow grass or 

 grain to get butter ; the particular 

 flavor comes not from the bee changing 

 the material, but the material itself has 

 the flavor in the first place. 



Of course no honest person would at- 

 tempt to sell sugar syrup for honey, no 

 matter whether fed to the bees or not. 



Marengo, 111. 



[Bee-keepers cannot bo too careful 

 about feeding sugar syrup to bees. It is 

 all right to feed it, as the Doctor says, 

 for Htxires for the bees to winter on, but 

 it must never b<i fed for the purpose of 



being put into the sections, or extracted, 

 and afterward sold as honey. Once per- 

 mit the public to get a clear taste of 

 sugar in what has been sold them as 

 pure honey, and it won't be long before 

 it will be utterly impossible to sell honey. 

 If purchasers want sugar in their honey 

 to " sweeten" it, they are quite able to 

 put it in themselves. Let every bee- 

 keeper avoid even the slightest appear- 

 ance of adulteration. No other course 

 will ever pay. — Editok.] 



Foul BrooJ— Better Proof kM For. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY KANDOLPH GRADEN. 



If I may be permitted, I would like to 

 explain some things in regard to foul 

 brood. 



All have seen Mr. McEvoy's article 

 and challenge to me in the American 

 Bee Journal, of Sept. 7, 1893. In the 

 Bee Journal of Jan. 11, 1894, I 

 made a reply to his challenge, and asked 

 to have it amended. Then in the Bee 

 Journal of April 19, 1894, Mr. Mc- 

 Evoy says he has no time to go to Michi- 

 gan, so will not accept the amendment, 

 but makes another challenge, to send 

 money to an entire stranger to me, and 

 in [to 'me] a strange country, to be tried 

 in just everything his own way. Now, 

 do you think their is any justice in that? 

 And do you think that any sane man 

 upon the face of this earth would com- 

 ply with that request ? 



NOT HASTY IN THE MATTER. 



Before reviewing Mr. McEvoy's arti- 

 cle any further, let me say that I was 

 not hasty in any of the matters he re- 

 fers to, nor did I clap my hands and 

 shout " Eureka !" as soon as I discovered 

 a method of cleaning out foul brood, but 

 I waited three long years, to see if I 

 might not be mistaken in the results 

 and observations, but after seeing that 

 it was, to all appearances, a success in 

 every instance, and seeing others recoA- 

 mending methods that in my hands 

 proved a failure, I felt in duty bound to 

 try to save some of the readers of the 

 American Bee Journal their time and 

 trouble in trying to cure foul brood with 

 such methods that proved a failure with 

 me. I have a letter from a bee-keeper 

 who says that he treated his bees by 

 Mr. McEvoy's method, but he says that 



