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A LiCCtnre on Fraud.— Ou page 115 

 we noted the fact that the Prairie Farmer 

 had published Lizzie Cotton's advertise- 

 ment, and remarked that Mrs. Harrison, 

 who conducts the Apiarian Department in 

 that paper, should give a lecture on fraud. 

 Well, she did, and here it is, copied from 

 last week's Prairie Farmer : 



Why, Lizzie, you are wonderfully toned 

 down in your advertisement. Honey is so 

 cheap you don't make lift}' dollars per hive 

 for every colony in your yard, as you used 

 to do yearly (on paper). It is too bad, isn't 

 it? If I had such valuable stock as you 

 have, I would not sell nary bee ; no, not 

 one. But then, twenty dollars for a few 

 bees in a box, minus a queen, is not to be 

 sneezed at, any day. Your "New System 

 of Bee-Keeping" is not to open a colony 

 purchased of you for two weeks, for in that 

 time the bees will have reared a queen. 



"Money can be made keeping bees. In 

 nearly every family there is some one who 

 could keep bees on ??i!/ plan, and secure a 

 handsome yearly income." How is your 

 plan different from all the bee-keepers of 

 the world, who tell all they know — and 

 more too — without money and without 

 price? How about that wonderful bee- 

 food, the recipe for which you charged so 

 much, the slippery elm one? You remem- 

 ber it, do you not? Do you have it incor- 

 porated in 3'our " Illustrated Book of Infor- 

 mation, Free?" You never sent me your 

 book, as many other authors have done ; O, 

 no; you are not green enough for that, but 

 Prof. J. B. Turner, of Jacksonville, Ills., did 

 with his compliments; here it is verbatim: 



Can you not, througli the Prairie Farmer, help to 

 expose this transparent fraud ? I am tired of re- 

 ceiving her circulars. I learn of many cases in 

 which money sent to her has been cabbaged without 

 any return whatever. If she wishes to do any hon- 

 est business, why not send her things C. O. D. ? 



.Tacksonyille, Ills. J. B. Turner. 



Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton, of West Gorham, 

 Maine, has received more attention from 

 the editors of bee-periodicals, than any 

 Jjee-keeping woman in our. land ; and she is 

 many times the sole occupant of a column 

 devoted to exposing humljugsand swindles. 

 Mrs. Lizzie does not wear a bustle or bangs; 

 O, no ! but coat, pants and vest, and is 

 known as Mr. Cotton, away down in Maine. 



When I was attending the Exposition in 

 New Orleans, and examining the inventions 

 of women, my eye caught a pine box with 

 a huge placard tacked to one side with the 

 inscription, "The Controllable Bee-Hive 

 and New System of Bee-Management." It 

 was no hive at all ; there was not a frame 

 in it; without cover or surplus arrange- 

 ment. There was a bright bee-keeper there 

 who had charge of an exhibit from one of 

 the parishes of Louisiana, and she went to 

 the manager of that department and had 

 the box removed, for there was nothing in 

 it to be called an invention. 



The cheek ! to get her advertisement in- 

 serted in the Prairie Farmci' atter she had 

 been exposed in its columns as a swindler 

 years ago. Many persons who could ill 

 afford the expense, have been sent useless 

 lumber by express, costing large sums. All 

 who send her money may expect to be 

 treated as the spider did the fly. 



Tlie Report of the proceedings of the 

 20th annual session of the International 

 American Bee- Association contains, besides 

 the interesting report, the new songs and 

 music then used, and engravings of the 

 present officers as well as the retiring ones. 

 In all, it contains 36 pages. It is for sale 

 at this office. The price is 25 cts., postpaid. 



Ripening anil Ke-LiiqiieryinK Ex- 

 tracted Honey. 



Written for Uic A inerican Bee Journal 



Query 691.- 1. In placing extracted honey 

 in open vessels lu I'lpen, does it impair to any 

 material extent, tlu' essentia! oils thai, ^ive to 

 comb honey that c.xiiuisite aroma and spark- 

 ling- flavor so dclij^iil liil to the taste? 2. Does 

 beating granulatcii honey in order to rc- 

 liqiiify the saitic, destroy any material ele- 

 ment of its natural flavor? — Ohio. 



1 and 2. Not to any appreciable extent. 

 —J. P. H. Brown. 



1. I think not. 2. Not unless it is over- 

 heated.— Eugene Secor. 



1. In open vessels, yes. 2. No, not if 

 properly done. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. I believe it does, to some extent. 3. 

 Not unless it is heated more than is neces- 

 sary to liquify it. — A. B. Mason. 



1. I do not know. I doubt if it does. 2. 

 Generally it does, because heated too rap- 

 idly and too much. — C. C. Miller. 



1. I hardly think so. 2. Not if the vessel 

 containing the honey is placed in water,and 

 brought to a gradual heat. — J. M. Ham- 



BAUGH. 



1. Prof. Cook says " No." 3. If you heat 

 it too hot, it will destroy the Une flavor. — 

 H. D. Cutting. 



1. We think not. 2. Not if done care- 

 fully, au baiU'Vutric, on a very slow fire ; 

 but it is very easy to damage it with too 

 much heat. — Dadant & Sox. 



1. No — unless the honey was too thin 

 when extracted. 3. Not if done in a water- 

 bath, at as slow a heat as possible. — P. L. 



VlALLON. 



1. I think that it does. Extracted honey, 

 no matter from what source, in time tastes 

 simply sweet, and that is about all. 2. No, 

 if it is not heated too highly. — C. H. Dm- 



BERN. 



1. Indeed it does not — at least here in 

 Michigan. 2. Not if gently heated. Care 

 should be exercised not to over-heat it. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



1. It is not easy to determine the force of 

 the words " to any material extent." Ex- 

 tracted honey loses flavor by exposure to 

 the air. 8. The flavor is still more im- 

 paired by heating.— M. Mahin. 



1. It loses none of the flavor which it has 

 when extracted. The flavor of thin honey 

 is not as good as that left in the hive for a 

 month or two. 3. Not unless heated too 



hot. — G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



1. I think that it does. If there is any 

 advantage to be gained from extracting un- 

 ripe honey, I have yet to learn it. 3. Put 

 the vessel containing the honey, in water, 

 and then heat. No Injury results from 

 liquifying honey in a water-bath. — G. L. 

 Tinker. 



1. Not if placed in, a cleftu room, and 

 properly cared for. 2. Not unless heated 

 to too high a degree of temperature ; all 

 that is required, being to simply liquify the 

 honey. — J. E. Poxd. 



1. Yes. 2. No. Uncap comb honey and 

 expose it to the air, and it soon loses, in a 

 large degree, that quality which makes it 

 desirable as honey. While extracted honey 

 of good quality is superior to all the syrups, 

 it will always be considered as belonging to 

 them, and classed with them. — J. M. Shuck. 



In the first place, my honey never needs 

 "I'ipening." What a word to apply to a 

 fluid! But the querist is not responsible 

 for introducing it into our current bee-lit- 

 erature. I do not remove the honey from 



the hives until it is thoroughly evaporatol 

 by the bees. By a proper application of 

 the "tiering-up system," I gain both in 

 quantity and i|uality of honey. 1. Cer- 

 tainly, it does. All the samples of arti- 

 jiciallyevaporated honey that I have kept 

 in my collection of samples, have proven to 

 be poor sturt'. 3. (iranulated honey can be 

 reduced to the liquid state without per- 

 ceptible loss of flavor, if properly done. — 

 G. W. Dkmaree. 



1. No. 2. Yes, if heated too much. 

 Place a vessel of water on the stove, and 

 put the vessel containing the honey in the 

 water, keeping it from touching the bottotii 

 of the first vessel by putting sticks between, 

 and heat the water to a temperature not to 

 exceed 150 degrees, when the honey will 

 be slowly liquified without "injury — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



1. No, it does not impair the essential 

 oils, and the essential oils do not get away. 

 Let me tell you what takes place : You 

 would not put the honey in an open vessel 

 to ripen, if it w.as not too thin. It contained 

 water which vou wanted to get rid of. Thi.s 

 water will not evaporate unless the tem- 

 perature is well up. With this temi)era- 

 ture up, and with this surplus water which 

 you wish to get rid of, bacteria are pro- 

 duced ; in other words, fermentation takes 

 place just a little. Had you added plenty 

 of water before you began the open-air 

 ripening process, vinegar would have been 

 the result before the ripening took place. 

 As it was, your honey went towards the 

 vinegar state just a little, and took on the 

 sharp twange which cuts in the throat, and 

 gives you the impression that the essential 

 oil is gone. Do not think you can keep up 

 a demand for your extracted honey and 

 ripen it on the open-air plan. Let it be 

 well ripened by the bees before you extract 

 it, then screw it up air-tight, and keep it in 

 a cool place. The cool places are damp, be- 

 cause they are cool, but that will not hurt 

 the honey if the can is screwed up air-tight. 

 2. If it granulates, heat it slowly back to 

 liquid, and you will not injure it. No one 

 will ever be able to tell that it was gi'anu- 

 lated and then re liquified. — JamesHeddon. 



1. The air will ripen honey when it is too 

 thin, without injuring it in the least. 3. 

 Heating granulated honey, to liquify it, 

 dones no injury, if it is slowly done in an 

 outer kettle of water, and not burned. — The 

 Editor. 



Ooolitllc on 4t"CC"''R*^i>'ii*s- 



Queens can be reared in the upper stories 

 of hives used for extracted honey, where a 

 queen-excluding honey-board is used, which 

 are as good, if not superior, to Queens 

 reared by any other process; and that, too, 

 while the old Queen is doing duty below, 

 just the same as though Queens were not 

 being reared above. This is a fact, though 

 it is not generally known. 



If you desire to know how this can be 

 done — how to have Queens fertilized in up- 

 per stories, while the old Queen is laying 

 below — how you may safely introduce any 

 Queen, at any time of the j'ear when bees 

 cay fly — all about the different races of 

 bees — all about shipping Queens, queen- 

 cages, candy for queen-cages, etc. — all 

 about formiijg nuclei, multiplying or unit- 

 ing bees, or weak colonies, etc. ; or, in fact 

 everything about the queen-business which 

 you may want to know, send for " Doolit- 

 tle's Scientific Queen-Rearing:" a book of 

 170 pages, which is nicely bound in cloth, 

 and as interesting as a story. Price, $1.00. 



