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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Nov. 30, 1905 



of honey. There is another kind of honey I have had put 

 into sections and supers ; I don't know what source it comes 

 from. It is white, though not snow-white hke sweet clover : 

 it has a slightly muddy tint. That honey has no more flavor 

 to it than so much sugar syrup. As soon as I discovered 

 it I stopped selling it, because I said everybody that tastes 

 that will swear it is sugar syrup and nothing else. I would 

 like to know if anybody else has had any experience with it. 

 I think it comes about between white clover and spring 

 clover. 



!Mr. Meredith — Is it honey-dew? 



Mr. Opfer — Here is a bottle of sweet clover honey, and 

 I would like anybody in the audience to show better honey 

 than this. It depends a good deal on the man that produces 

 the sweet clover honey in my opinion. 



Pres. York — I am satisfied that Mr. Opfer's sample is 

 pure sweet clover honey. I have had lots of it. 



Mr. Moore — I would like to say a word on this honey 

 question. I sold to my customers some sweet clover honey 

 in Chicago, seven or eight years ago, and it is only recently 

 I have gotten' away from the effects of it. Any one who 

 asks which is best, I say, "There is no best ; it is simply 

 a question of what you are used to." This market is used 

 to clover and basswood flavors. They get their honey fiom 

 Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, where the pre- 

 ponderance is white clover and basswood. I know a major- 

 ity will have sweet clover honey. Where they get to like 

 it, it is liked as<well as anything else. But this honey ques- 

 tion is purely a matter of taste. They want what they have 

 all their lives been used to, and they will absolutely condemn 

 and call impure anything else. 



Mr. Becker — As far as sweet clover honey is concerned, 

 I have no objection whatever; it is a very fine honey. But 

 when you take out a section of sweet clover honey there is 

 the peculiar smell to it that is not in any other honey, and 



I think that is the part that people do not like. When you 

 taste the honey it is as fine tasting as any honey, but it has 

 that peculiar smell that you can smell in the growing sweet 

 clover a hundred yards off before you reach it. 



L.\RELING SECTION HONEY. 



"What miglit be the disadvantage of a label covering 

 all four sides of a section, printed matter being on all four 

 sides?" 



Mr. Fluegee — I should think it would be daubbed up with 

 honey and get soiled. 



Mr. Wilcox — Retail dealers might not like it, and that is 

 a serious objection. They won't want to advertise your 

 honey for you, by distributing it among their customers ; 

 they would sooner order direct from the producer. 



Pres. York — I take it that the questioner means printed 

 matter concerning the production of honey, or proof of the 

 purity, and not as an advertising card. 



Mr. Wilcox — I see no necessity for any printed matter 

 on comb honey unless your name is on it as a guaranty of 

 purity. 



Pres. York — At the St. Louis convention the question 

 was asked whether "it might be well to print something right 

 on the wood of the sections by the manufacturers, calling 

 attention to the fact *hat there is no such thing as manu- 

 factured comb honey, or something of that kind. But I 

 doubt if people would stop to read it, anyway. Take the 

 cities where most of t)ie comb honey is sold, the servant 

 girls get it, and I don't think they would stop to read any- 

 thing printed on the sections. Still, they might. 



Mr. Moore — It seems to me if any one wants to put 

 printed matter on it, the carton is the very best method, 

 and you cai: print them all over, and as much of it will 

 be read as any other printed matter we send out. 

 (Conttaued next week.) 



Conducted by Emma M. Wilson, Marengo, 111. 



A New Yopk Woman's Report 



Dear Miss Wilson : — As you have re- 

 quested the sisters to send reports of last sea- 

 son's work, I comply. 



I put up S colonies last fall, well packed, 

 and also well provided with stores. I lost 3 

 in wintering, and got a fair crop from the 5 — 

 about 175 pounds — mostly white clover, beau- 

 tifully white, and well filled out. It was 

 taken off in July. I lost 2 swarms and sold 1 

 nucleus. I bought and introduced an Italian 

 <iueen from Texas, which proved to be excel- 

 lent, her bees very gentle, and they cap their 

 honey white. I have 7 colonies now put up 

 heavy with honey, and need no feeding; they 

 are packed in chaff outdoors. 



So far my experience is pleasant, but I must 

 tell of my fatal mistake in neglecting to 

 sulphur or fumigate the honey after taking it 

 off. It is a painful experience to find half of 

 such lovely honey ruined by moths. But we 

 learn by our mistakes. 



I see Dr. Miller recommends using bisulph- 

 ide of carbon, 3 or 4 tablespoonfuls for 100 

 pounds of honey. I shall use it next year. 



Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Sarah E. Wiley. 



A 'Woman Bee-Keeper's Political 

 Prospects 



It appears that honors undesired have been 

 thrust upon a bee-keeping sister out in 

 Is'ebraska— Mrs.A. L. Amos. Her letter de- 

 clining the nomination for county superin- 

 tendent of schools appears in the Custer 

 County Beacon. No little time has been spent 

 trying to decide just what part of her letter 

 should be given to the readers of this depart- 

 ment, but the whole letter is so bright and in- 

 teresting that it has finally been decided to 

 give it entire, with apologies to the editor for 

 occupying so much space with something that 



is not at all about l)ees. It thows evident 

 content with a bee-keeper's lot, and at the 

 same time the frankness with which possi- 

 bilities in the future are mentioned is com- 

 mended to politicians of the sterner sex. The 

 letter follows : 



A Patriotic Letter. 



Mr. Editor: — Will it be considered taking 

 oneself too seriously if I notice for a moment 

 that my name has been mentioned as a possi- 

 ble nominee for county superintendent? Is 

 it something that I should smile over and 

 pass by ? 



I have been wondering how, secluded in my 

 hermitage here, I could be thought of for a 

 moment in this connection. I, who don't 

 " know the ropes " by which to climb to any 

 offce; I, who find my life so full that I have 

 not time to be director in my own school dis- 

 trict. 



Friends, I thank you for the honor of a 

 passing consideration. I gave to teaching 

 school in this and adjoining counties 10 of the 

 best years of my life. 'They were pleasant 

 years, too. 



I don't say that if called to an office of this 

 kind some time in the future I would not 

 accept and give to it my best effort, but thn 

 time now is inopportune. My three little 

 maids need me at home. There is no place 

 like the country for children. Let them grow 

 to be healthy little animals before they are 

 anything else. They are too young for me to 

 think for a moment that I might change the 

 even tenor of my way. 



Friends, I find life worth while here ! " Far 

 from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." 

 On this farm, the gift of " Uncle Sam," I 

 have achieved some triumphs. The trees 

 have grown large enough to support a ham- 

 mock and furnish shade overhead, and when 

 the thermometer ranges 90 degrees and up- 

 wards, I can lounge a little with book and 

 paper within hearing of the busy hum of in- 



dustry from the bee-hives close at hand. There 

 is another of my triumphs. I am not a bee- 

 keeper merely, but a bee-master, since I bend 

 the little creatures to my will, and have shown 

 that honey can be produced abundantly in 

 Custer County. 



I have seen apple-trees grow from saplings 

 to great trees, bending with their loads of 

 health-giving fruit. I am very close to Nature 

 here, and " Nature never did betray the heart 

 that loved her." 



Friends, I promise you that I will try to 

 grow so that if the time does come when I 

 can leave, and you'see fit to call me, I may be 

 ready. But I tell you that I am no politician, 

 and will pull no wires. Withal, I am " a 

 canny Scot," and realize that I might get 

 hold of the wrong one— a live wire, for in- 

 stance ! 



This is much for me to write at this season 

 of the year. Success to the other fellow ! 

 [Mrs.] a. L. Amos. 



The Truth About Honey. — A few 



changes have been made in the reading of the 

 Comb Honey Guarantee Circular for shipping- 

 cases gotten up by The Honey-Producers' 

 League, so that it will be suitable for bee- 

 keepers to use in their correspondence, put- 

 ting one in with every letter they write. It 

 is headed, " The Truth About Honey," and is 

 printed on both sides of a light manilla card- 

 board. It is sent postpaid in lots of 50 for 10 

 cents, 100 for 20 cents, etc. Every bee-keeper 

 should use it, as it will undoubtedly help to 

 popularize the use of honey. 



The (juarantee Circulars for putting in ship- 

 ping-cases should be used by every bee-keeper 

 who sells comb honey by the case. These 

 circulars are the same price — 10 cents for 50 

 copies, postpaid. Send all orders to the 

 American Bee Journal office. 



Comb Honey Guarantee Circulars. 



— These were gotten up by The Honey-Pro- 

 ducers' League, to be put into shipping-cases 

 before nailing them up for market. They are 

 mailed for only 10 cents for 50 — practically 

 cost price. Every bee-keeper who has any 

 honey to sell by the case should use these 

 circulars. They will help to inspire confi- 

 dence in the genuineness of comb honey. 

 Send all orders to this office. 



