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granulated, until it is as thick as the. 

 best honey when it is cnoled. It slioulil 

 then be fed at a temperature of SO-' 

 to 90^. 



PUIUTY OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Extracted honey has all of the good 

 qualities, if not the superior, of comb 

 honey, and when our customers once 

 become acquainted vvith it, and know 

 what it is, and that it is not strained 

 honey, the demand for it will grad- 

 ually increase to the advantage of all 

 concerned. 



Extracted honey is honey in its 

 purest form, removed from the combs, 

 and is free from all impurities. It is 

 verv ditlerent from the old-fashioned 

 "Strained honey " which was pressed 

 out of the combs, and which contained, 

 to a more or less degree, pollen, brood 

 in all stages,- dead bees. Hies, etc., all 

 of which was mixed with the honey. 

 Now, things have changed under our 

 advanced strides in apiculture, and I 

 am glad that this class of goods is fast 

 becoming extinct in our markets. 



MARKETING EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Extracted honey sells best put up in 

 glass jars — the one-quart fruit jars, 

 holding three pounds each, are very 

 good, and when they are empty, they 

 are very useful in the family. Should 

 the market demand smaller packages, 

 jars that will hold one and two pounds 

 each should be furnished, filled, and 

 neatly labeled with the producer's 

 name plainly printed upon them, and 

 put in neat retailing crates of one or 

 two aozen each. 



GRANULATION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 



We should always instruct our cus- 

 tomers that pure extracted honej' is 

 very apt to granulate in winter, if ex- 

 posed to a low temperature, and that 

 granulation is a sure sign of purity, 

 and that if adulterated, especially with 

 glucose, it will not granulate. We 

 should also inform buyers that granu- 

 lated honey can again be brought to 

 the fluid state by placing the jar or 

 vessel that contains it, in hot water, 

 and letting it remain until the honey 

 is melted, but not long enough to come 

 to the boiling-point. 



HOME MARKET FOR HONEY. 



All honey-producers should strive to 

 build up a home market for their 

 honey, then, with proper and con- 

 tinued effort in this direction, ex- 

 tracted honey will largely supersede 

 the best grades of syrups and maple 

 molasses. We need not stop to argue 

 the value of honey as food, although 

 we could say much in regard to the 

 various uses to which it is put, as in 

 culinary purposes as well as in medici- 

 nal preparations, and in preparing 

 healthful and cooling drinks, etc. 



We should explain to our customers 

 why we can alibrd to furnish extracted 

 honey cheaper than comb honey, and, 

 if convenient, let them see us extract 

 and put up the honey in a few jars, so 

 that they could see for themselves how 

 it is done. This would be a good 

 thing to do at our fairs, where we 

 could dispose of our extracted honey 

 as fast as we could put it up, while the 

 crowd would be looking on, filled with 

 wonder and astonishment ; and those 

 buying would know that they were 

 getting a genuine article. 



I am satisfied that there is not one 

 person in ten thousand who ever saw 

 honey extracted, and not more than 

 one in five hundred that has ever 

 tasted it, therefore the industry of pro- 

 ducing extracted honey is but in its 

 infancy, with large and prosperous 

 developments ahead. 



Delaware, Ohio. 



CARNIOLANS. 



Tlieir Ctiarsielcrislics Compared 

 with Other Races. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY E. L. PRATT. 



The Caruiolan bees have been at- 

 tacked by a few persons who say that 

 they are cross, and hard to handle. 

 One or two have said that they were 

 not as recommended as to honey- 

 gathering. Now, I would ask, have 

 these men been experimenting with 

 pure Carniolans ? I do not beleve that 

 they have. The reijutation of Carnio- 

 lan bees will depend a great deal upon 

 their purity. I, for one, would not 

 recommend these bees, if I were not 

 convinced that they were very desir- 

 able, good workers, gentle, and second 

 to none in mauj' of the noted charac- 

 teristics. 



As a test of their gentility, I have 

 often taken unbelievers into my yard, 

 opened a hive, and taken out the 

 combs without the use of a single puft" 

 of smoke. Very often I would take a 

 comb by one corner, and swing it 

 about my head at such a speed that the 

 thin honey would sprinkle out. Not 

 one bee would leave the comb, nor 

 would they be thrown off by the mo- 

 tion, but " cling like Death." 



We all know that soon after a honey 

 harvest closes, there is a desire to rob, 

 and bees cannot be handled so well on 

 this account. But the Carniolans will 

 remain inside of their respective hives, 

 unless sweets are exposed, or hives left 

 open for any length of time. We must 

 bear in mind that they are an eager 

 race, and always on the alert for some- 

 thing sweet ; therefore the apiarist 

 should not attempt to handle them 



directly afirr a honey-llow, for fear of 

 teaching them a bad habit. 



They are not given to robbing each 

 other, but tlicy will approjjriate e.x- 

 posed or poorly protect(!d sweets dur- 

 ing a dearth of nectar, the same as 

 any race of bees. 



in a yard of all Carniolans, there is 

 very little robbing, even at times 

 when such a condition is most favor- 

 able. In a hand-to-hand tight, Carnio- 

 lans W5. Italians, however, the Carnio- 

 lans comes oft' best every time, show- 

 ing their extraordinary powers of 

 protection. 



On occasion of robbers attempting 

 to enter a well-regulated Carniolan 

 colony, their Yankee expedition is ex- 

 hibited. Italians and blacks will spend 

 time in pulling and hauling at a rob- 

 ber bee, and at last let her go to con- 

 tinue her ignoble work, but the Car- 

 niolans will pounce on such intruder 

 and despatcli it at once, without the 

 least ceremony. 



The only fair way to test this race is 

 to first make sure that you have them 

 pure, and then go at it in a manly and 

 unprejudiced manner. Give them 

 their just dues, without the biased 

 opinion of breeders of other races to 

 discourage you. Fair play is all that 

 is asked. 



Marlboro, Mass. 



BEE-KEEPING. 



Some Improvements to be 9Iade 

 ill Apiculture. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY FRANCIS D. LACY. 



I feel much interested in the honey- 

 resources of our country. The various 

 improvements that have been devised 

 to facilitate the bee-culture, will occa- 

 sion soviie, no doubt, to conclude that 

 the acme of perfection is reached, and 

 not a stone has been left unturned in 

 the way of improvement ; but doubt- 

 less this is not yet the case, and 

 twenty years of the future will prove 

 that the bee-culture of to-day is com- 

 paratively in its infancy, and even the 

 revolutionizing of a greater portion of 

 the present method of operation is 

 liable to take place within that time. 



Consider what twenty years of the 

 past has done, and then contemplate 

 how that to-day many who are oldest 

 in the business, disagree relative to 

 some of the most minor points. How, 

 and wh}', does this occur ? Does it 

 not indicate that many of the sub- 

 stantial facts have not been practically 

 reached, else why do "doctors dis- 

 agree ?" 



Again, there is scarcely a common 

 point in question, but what neai'ly 



