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tary, a sample of honey which was kept over in the same way. 



Mr. Kennedy — I remember the honey, but I cannot call to 

 mind the man's name. 



Dr. Miller — It had been up in the garret. You know very 

 well when you take honey that has been under ordinary care, 

 taken off the hives, and it will be cracked by this time, even 

 with the temperature this year, but that was not cracked, it 

 was perfectly sound, everything about it, and it seems to me 

 there was a permanent ripening up that comes in that way. 

 That was comb honey. We might prevent granulation of 

 honey by heating to a certain point. Is there anything else 

 that can be done to prevent granulation of honey on the retail 

 market ? 



Mr. Ellis — What would that be worth, Mr. Chairman, to 

 put up honey prepared in that way ? 



Dr. Miller — How much more would the honey be worth ? 



Mr. Ellis — At least 2 cts. per lb. more. 



Dr. Miller — Take ordinary honey and let it go through 

 freezing weather, and it will be cracked and spoiled — it is 

 worth 3 cts. below the market, and the other way it ought to 

 be above the market. 



Mr. Ellis — Not only that, but they mustkeep it over a year 

 in order to keep it as your mother kept it, and let it be expos- 

 ed in that way to that degree of heat. 



Mr. Green — It isn't necessary to keep it over a year. It 

 can be kept in an ordinary heated room, and the quality im- 

 proved in that way in a shorter time. I kept my room heated 

 for two months, and then sold the honey. 



Dr. Miller — What do you mean by Iteeping it heated ? 



Mr. Green — A large lamp or oil- stove was kept burning 

 there night and day. 



Dr. Miller — At what temperature did you keep it ? 



Mr. Green — Much of the time over 100^. It didn't cost 

 me over an average of perhaps 5 to 8 cts. a day to keep the 

 room warm with I.jOO to 2000 lbs. of honey in it. I know it 

 paid me well in the improved quality of the honey. 



Mr. Ellis— Was it ropy, like that ? 



Mr. Green — Yes, sir ; not so much so, though. 



Mr. Kennedy — Was that in the winter time ? 



Mr. Green — In the fall, from the time it was taken off the 

 hives until I sold it, or the greater part of it. 



Dr. Miller — If I am correct in that theory — that heating it 

 up to a certain point for a certain length of time makes a per- 

 manent change — then that time should be during the warm 

 weather, when a very little artificial heat would cost us much 

 less than it would in the winter time. 



Mr. Ellis — What is the heat of a colony of bees ? 



Mr. Miller— I think about 903. 



The convention then adjourned until 9:30 o'clock the next 

 forenoon. 



(To be coQtmued.) 



Lincoln Convention Report — Some Corrections. 



BY R. C. AIKIN. 



In reading the Convention Report I find I have been quite 

 unfortunate in my statements, have said things I never in- 

 tended to say, or have been misunderstood or misquoted. 

 Whatever has been the trouble, I want to correct some of the 

 statements, for if they go uncorrected I would not blame some 

 of the fraternity for hopping onto ne "rough shod. " 



Ou page 705 (Nov. 5th issue), first column, occurs this 

 paragraph : 



" When I lived in eastern Iowa we produced heart's-ease 

 honey. In going from there to Colorado I met a man who had 

 heart's-ease honey. I recognized the old honey we produced 

 in Page Co., Iowa. This man gave me a couple of sections, and 

 when I took it and let it run into the alfalfa honey it became 

 very dark. Alfalfa honey is white. Now, if I remember cor- 

 rectly, Mr. Wallenmeyer, of Indiana, mixes heart's-ease and 

 alfalfa honey together, and then sells it. Heart's-ease honey 

 is lighter-colored in Iowa than in Kansas." 



Now, what I tried to tell the convention was that I had 

 previously lived in southwestern Iowa, and there produced 

 heart's-ease honey ; that on my way from Colorado to the con- 

 vention I came through Washington Co., Kans., and there 

 called on Mr. Weakley who gave me a sample of his heart's- 

 ease honey ; that in comparison with alfalfa which I had with 

 me it was very dark, much darker than any heart's-ease 

 honey I had ever seen. 



The report makes me say that "Mr. Wallenmeyer, of In- 

 diana, mixes heart's-ease and alfalfa and then sells it;" but I 

 stated that Mr. Wallenmeyer says that with him heart's-ease 

 honey is whiter than alfalfa. 



On page 706, near the top of the first column, comes the 

 following : 



"I had almost a failure. There has been bloom all over< 

 and it has been a good year, but I have taken very little honey- 

 I live north of Denver, in Colorado. In 1889 my average 

 from 165 colonies was 150 pounds ; the next year from the 

 same number of colonies, 100 pounds average ; the next year 

 about 50 or 60 ; the next year 10 pounds, and this year al- 

 most nothing. In Iowa I have taken 227 pounds per colony 

 from 11 colonies. A man can get double the amount of ex- 

 tracted honey from a colony that he can of comb honey. I 

 can make more money by producing extracted than by produc- 

 ing comb honey." 



In the second line where it says " has been a good year," 

 etc., it should say " has not been, " etc. Near the end of the 

 paragraph where it says " a man can," etc., it should read "a, 

 ma,B cannot," etc. The last sentence of the quotation should 

 begin " I cannot," instead of " I can." 



Again, in the same column occurs this: 



"I came from Loveland, Colo., through Pueblo, and through 

 Kansas, to get here, and I consider alfalfa to be an excellent 

 and reliable honey-plant. In the irrigated country where I 

 live, we are less liable to have a failure than where they have 

 a small amount of rain. In Iowa, since I have been there, 

 they had only about one complete failure in fifteen years." 



This last sentence should read, "In Colorado, where I live, 

 there has been but one complete failure in fifteen years." 



Continuing, the same paragraph reads: "At Greeley, 

 Colo., they had a complete failure this year, and nearly so at 

 Loveland. North of Loveland they have done better. At 

 Denver, just before the honey-flow the bees vanished and no 

 one could tell where they went to. One man said he had 225 

 colonies, and could only find 25 colonies afterward. Mr. W. 

 L. Porter, a bee-keeper near Denver, said that after the bees 

 had gone he did not have enough bees left to cover his hand." 



The next to the last sentence in the quotation where 

 it reads, " and could only find 25 colonies afterward," 

 it should read, " had not enough bees left to make 25 good 

 colonies." In the last sentence after the word " gone " drop 

 the word "he," and insert " many colonies." 



Again, on page 724, first column, near the bottom we find 

 this : 



" There is a firm in our State (Colorado) to whom I have 

 sold considerable extracted honey. I have been in their es- 

 tablishment often. They openly charge all bee-keepers in and 

 about Denver with adulterating." 



The last sentence should read " the beekeepers charge 

 the firm," not the firm the beekeepers. 



In the next column, and about the middle, is a paragraph 

 that speaks of myself having eaten mixed honey in a hotel. 

 The major part of that statement belongs to some other man, 

 for I was not in a hotel while in the city. 



In regard to the bee-keepers about Denver adulterating, I 

 want to say that I believe them to be free from such practices. 



There are some other errors, but they are such that there 

 is no reflection on any one, and no material difference, so I 

 will not mention them. Page Co., Iowa. 



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