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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug. 3, 1905 



in Mecosto County, where the early How is 

 about the same, followed with a buckwheat 

 and aster flow, the difference is not as great. 

 Still, I think even here the colony without 

 any swarm. 



C. H. DiBBERN (111.)— I would get more 

 section honey, or extracted honey, as surplus 

 from the colony that did not swarm. If the 

 total amount gathered is meant, I will have 

 to admit, o la Dr. Miller, " don't linow." 



Wm. McEvot (Ont.)— Where the season is 

 slwrl, and ends when the colony is done, then 

 the colony without any swarming. In locali- 

 ties where the season is long, and much buck- 

 wheat is grown, then from the colony with 

 its one swarm. 



O. O. PoppLETON (Fla,)— If the honey-flow 

 occurs early in the season, and is short and 

 heavy, the one colony will probably give most 

 honey ; but if the flow comes late, or is long- 

 drawn-out in time, the 2 colonies will prob- 

 ably do best. 



G. W. Demaree (Ky.)— It depends upon 

 the length of the summer honey season, and 

 the time the prime swarm issues. It the 

 swarm issues at the right lime the parent 

 colony and its issue — if properly managed — 

 will beat any non-swarming colony. 



E. S. LovEST (Utah)— This is rather a hard 

 question to answer. It the colony is weak it 

 will not do much in either case, but with a 

 strong colony, as a rule, it would swarm un- 

 less it was divided. Personally, I could pro- 

 duce more honey by the latter method. 



C. Davenport (Minn.)— This depends upon 

 a number of things or conditions, as, for in- 

 stance, length of flow, what time they swarm, 

 and how the swarm and the parent colony are 

 handled. I can " swarm " any colony arti- 

 ficially so as to get more honey, either comb 

 or extracted, than if they swarmed naturally, 

 or did not swarm. 



_ E. E. Hasty (Ohio)— Sometimes and some- 

 times — very often one way and very often the 

 other. With the early harvest a semi-failure, 



and a good, late yield, the two would do much 

 the better. With those two condiiiuns put 

 vlre versa, the one would do much the better. 

 Probably the last state of things is rather iho 

 more common of the two. 



L. Stachelhausen (Tex.) — In this locality 

 in some years a colony with its one swarm 

 gives nearly twice as much honey as the same 

 colony without swarming. In dry years, with 

 an early honey-flow, a colony without swarm- 

 ing may gather quite an amount of honey. If 

 the i-ame colony had swarmed during this 

 honey-flow we would get no hooey crop at all. 



Honey Circular for Shipping-Cases 



The Honey-Producers' League has prepared, 

 and succeeded in getting some of the leading 

 bee-supply manufacturers to send out with 

 their shipping-cases, a guarantee comb honey 

 circular, intended to aid in dispelling the be- 

 lief that comb honey is ever machine-made. 

 Bee-keepers all know it is never so made, but 

 on account of the general impression that it 

 is, the League thought it would try to pass 

 the truth along through the honey-dealers. 



We trust that every bee-keeper who re- 

 ceives shipping-cases with the circulars will 

 be sure to put one in every case just under 

 the lid, so that whoever opens it will be com- 

 pelled to sell it. 



The G. B. Lewis Co. are putting the circu- 

 lars in sealed envelops with printed directions 

 on the outside, then including them with 

 their shipping-cases in the flat. 



Should any of our readers desire a supply 

 of these guarantee comb honey circulars, we 

 can furnish them, postpaid, at 10 cents per 50. 



That our readers may see just how the comb 

 honey circular reads, we give it below. 



"Conxbcb" attb 

 "(fxtractcb" 



DRY WEATHER AND COLOR OF HONEY. 



I do not believe that dry weather aiTects 

 the color of honey, except that in non-irri- 

 gated countries it is apt to lessen the yield, 

 so that bees, in their search for honey, work 

 on plants that ordinarily they would leave 

 alone. The honey thus secured is apt to be 

 darker and poorer in quality than what they 

 get from ordinary sources. In the irrigated 

 districts of Colorado and Utah, where alfalfa 

 is grown, the air is extremely dry, though the 

 ground may be well watered. When alfalfa 

 honey is secured free from any admixture, it 

 is water-white in color, and I have never 

 "seen anytliing to indicate that the weather had 

 anything to do with the color. In this valley, 

 though, it is but seldom that alfalfa honey 

 is secured alone. -An average of my honey, 

 even excluding the fall honey, which is dis- 

 tinctly darker in color, is of a_ light golden 

 tinge. — J. A. GrEE.x. in Gleaningi, 



banner honey county of new YORK. 



Tompkins Co., so I understand, has the 

 lionor of being the banner honey county of 

 New York. Its output was over 230,000 

 [pounds, or, figured in cars, it would be be- 

 tween seven and eight. When it is remem- 

 Ijered that that county is only about 30 miles 

 across it either way. these figures are somewhat 

 remarkable; but perhaps it will be better un- 

 derstood when it is known tliat the largest 

 bee-keeper in the world, probably, at the pres- 

 ent time, Mr. W. L. Coggshall, has some- 

 thing over 20 apiaries within its Ijorders. 

 There are other counties in the United States 

 that will show a larger output of honey, but 

 these counties are as large as some whole 

 States in the East. I refer to Los Angeles, 

 San Bernardino, and San Diego, in California. 

 -\11 these central counties in New York yield 

 immense amounts of honey. The territory is 

 already overstocked, and it would be useless 

 for an outsider to try to squeeze in. — Glean- 

 ings. 



To the Purchasers of this Honey 



The producer of this Comb Honey, and also the under- 

 signed, guarantee that the product in these sections or 

 small frames was all made by honey-bees. 



There is no such thing as manufactured comb honey. It 

 never was made, and never can be, newspaper and maga- 

 zine articles to the contrary. If any one says there is such 

 a thing as manufactured comb honey on the market, just tell 

 that person that the National Bee-Keepers' Association, an 

 organization of over 2000 members, through its General 

 Manager, N. E. France, of Platteville, Wis., will pay $1000 

 for proof of such machine-made combs filled with glucose 

 or any other cheap syrup, and capped over by means of 

 machinery without the aid of bees. Also, a corporation capi- 

 talized at $300,000, all paid in, has had for many years a 

 standing offer of a like sum for the same so-called manu- 

 factured comb honey as described, and the offer is still good. 

 In addition to this, the bee-expert, a life-long bee-keeper, 

 now in the employ of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, has repeatedly, in government bulletins and 

 in public addresses, denied the existence of any such prod- 

 uct. For evidence of this fact, refer to the report of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture for 1904, page 83 ; also to Farmers' 

 Bulletin No. 59, for 1905, pages 32 and 34, also issued by the 

 Department of Agriculture, entitled "Bee-Keeping," by 

 Frank Benton. 



It may be well to state that the basis for these comb- 

 honey canards is possibly due to the fact that the flavor of 

 honey in one locality may be very different from that of 

 another ; that when one tastes of a honey quite different in 

 color and flavor from that which he used to eat on the old 

 farm, he concludes it is adulterated or manufactured, espe- 

 cially if it be of poor quality. As a matter of fact, the comb 



honey from California is just as different from the same 

 article produced in the Central and Eastern States as the 

 fruits of that State are different from those in New Eng- 

 land. In the same way, the honey from Texas differs very 

 widely from that produced in Ohio, or honey from Florida 

 from that in Texas. Some honeys, like that from buck- 

 wheat, are very dark ; others are not only dark but ill- 

 flavored, and should never be sent to market, but be sold to 

 the baker or fed back to the bees for rearing young bees. 



Two-thirds of the States in the Union have pure-food 

 laws ; and one may rest assured that, in all the States 

 where such laws are in force, both honey in the comb and 

 in the liquid condition, generally called " extracted," is and 

 must be the genuine product of the hive. 



The oft-repeated misstatements about adulterated honey 

 and manufactured comb honey in the newspapers and maga- 

 zines has made it necessary for The Honey-Producers' 

 League to put out this statement, for the reason that the 

 general public has come to believe that a large part of the 

 honey on the market is adulterated or manufactured. If 

 the dealer will join with the bee-keepers in helping to cor- 

 rect these monstrous lies, it will materially increase his 

 sales of both comb and liquid honey. 



The Honey Producers' League 



GEORGE W. YORK, Manager 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Dr. C. C. Miller, President, Marengo, 111. 

 Geo. C. Lewis, Vice-President, Watertown, Wis. 

 W. Z. Hutchinson, Secretary, Flint, Mich. 

 A. L. BoYDBN, Treasurer, Medina, Ohio. 



N. B. — Do not store comb honey in a refrigerator, cold 

 storage, or cellar. These are the very worst places you can 

 put it. It should always be kept in the warmest and dryest 

 room you have. It is advisable to keep liquid or extracted 

 honey in the same warm, dry place. 



