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VoLXIIX. Airin,1892. No. 15. 



Editorial Buzzliigs. 



" Truth crushed to earth shall rise again 

 The eternal years of God are hers ; 



But error, wounded, writhes with pain 

 And dies among its worshipers." 



Xhe Principal honey plants of 

 Southern California are the white, 

 green, blue and black sage; buckthorn, 

 alfilaree, wild clover, crowsfoot — white, 

 blue, yellow and pink ; wild buckwheat, 

 yerba santa, alfalfa, fruit bloom and 

 the honey-dew from cottonwoods and 

 willows. 



The Qualifications of a bee- 

 keeper are gentleness, patience, absence 

 of fear, and perfect command of self. 

 Fear must be overcome or concealed. It 

 may be present at first, but usually 

 gives place to confidence after a little 

 experience. The theory that bees in- 

 stinctively select some persons as natural 

 pnemies, has no foundation in fact, 



Oranulatiou of Honey.— A 



Canadian subscriber writes that last 

 Fall he labeled his extracted-honey with 

 the usual foot-note, saying that: "All 

 pure honey will granulate in cold 

 weather," etc. To his surprise, that 

 honey did not granulate, although he 

 knows that it is pure. As a result he 

 stands convicted of selling honey that 

 is not pure, according to his own printed 

 label. He says the honey was of extra 

 fine quality. 



The assertion on that label was too 

 sweeping. It is a fact that some pure 

 honey will not granulate in cold weather. 

 The opposite is true, viz. : that honey 

 adulterated with glucose will not granu- 

 late in cold weather, and that is the way 

 the label should have read. There are 

 exceptional cases where pure honey will 

 not granulate, but when honey Is granu- 

 lated, it may be asserted with confidence 

 that it is pure. 



Prof. A. J.Cook has returned 

 from California in good spirits, and im- 

 proved in health. On March 28 he 

 wrote to us as follows : 



My work has hardly caught up yet. 

 To be gone four months is quite a set- 

 back, but we had a grand time. Cali- 

 fornia is a wonderful State — " as near 

 Eden as one can go by railroad," as a 

 friend of mine puts it. You know the 

 "golden gate " is over there. 



We hope that we shall return from 

 our "short vacation " as much renewed 

 in health and spirits as is our friend 

 Cook. We have not before had a vaca- 

 tion for rest for 20 years. Have we not 

 earned one by this time ? 



"We are Sorry to learn that our 

 friend, J. E. Pond, of North Attleboro, 

 Mass., is still confined to his residence 

 by La Grippe. It is not a bad case, but 

 just enough to keep him housed up in 

 fear of pneumonia. 



"When honey is coming in plentifully 

 is the best time to rear queens. 



