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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



September 



have proven the same thing. Conse- more delectable one, — in the product of 

 quently I am opposed to more than one the hive. 



entrance to any hive, under any cir- 

 cumstances, or at any time of the year. 

 Borodino, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1902. 



HONEY VS. SUGAR. 



A Comparison of the Relative Food Value 

 These Commodities. 



(Bessie L. Putnam). 



Says T. G- Newman, "It is nature's 

 ofifering to man — ready for use, distill- 

 ed drop by drop in myriads of flowers, 

 by a more delicate process than any hu- 

 man laboratory ever produced.'' Al- 

 most every one likes it, and the fact 

 that comparativeljf few can indulge in 

 it on account of the price should ren- 

 der every bee-keeper appreciative of his 

 privileges. As to the cost, there are 

 two ways of looking at the matter. 

 With the market price alone in view it 

 seems a little extravagant to substitute 

 honey for granulated sugar which is 

 sold for half the price; on the other 

 hand, the honey is converted from nec- 

 tar which would have been lost but for 

 the bees. It really costs the owner of 

 the hive but little save his labor, and 

 may be regarded as largely an inexpen- 

 sive way of converting unavailable ma- 

 terial into the choicest food. 



A tourist calls attention in Gleanings 



HILDREN hanker for 



ugar, although it has 



long been regarded as a 



delicacy of doubtful 



propriety. In the form 



of candy, however, it 



was indulged in with 



more or less liberality 



as the purse and the 

 rules of hygiene dictated. That it was 

 harmful was believed by many; the idea 



that it possessed anv special food value to the fact that chocolate, cofifee, rolls 

 would have been scouted a generation and honey are a staple breakfast menu 

 ago. throughout the continent, including 

 Since it is one of the most commonly Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, 

 adulterated foods, promiscuous use of Italy, Austria, and Switzerland. Some- 

 manufactured candy cannot be recom- times marmalade is substituted for the 

 mended. That of home manufacture, honey, but meat is not indulged in, 

 however, has been shown to be not on- the extracted honey, which is used en- 

 ly wholesome but a necessary food. The tirely, furnishing necessary fuel- 

 carbonates essential to perfect physical Cake, candy, pudding, all culinary 

 development are found in sugar as well products requiring sugar are more 

 as in meat, and in the former much wholesome and in many instances more 

 more easily assimilated. appetizing by a substitution of the hon- 

 Statistics show that civilized nations ey. The cereals used as breakfast food 

 are each year using more sugar and have a delightful flavor all their own 

 less pork, and the substitution proves when sweetened with honey, and all 

 a healthful one to the purse as well as that has been said advocating the use 

 to the body. The average consumption of sugar applies more emphatically in 

 by Americans is 63 pounds annually by the apiary. If it causes "honey sick- 

 each man, woman and child. Our own ness" try scalding a small quantity. 



credited as containing the Just imagine for a time that it is 



after which come made from left-overs and see how fast 



nation 



greatest sugar eaters. 



the Danish, Swiss, Dutch, French Ger- 

 mans and Swedes. The nations of South- 

 ern Europe indulge less freely as their 

 warm clime permits of less heat-pro- 

 ducing foods. "Generally speaking," 

 says a recent writer, "sugar is one of 

 the indices of national progressiveness; 

 the more enterprising and energetic a 

 people, the more sugar they eat." 



It is generallv conceded that honey 

 is much more easily digested than su- 

 gar; in fact, it is sugar partly digested. 

 The virtues of the latter all exist in a 



it will grow in popularity. Use it free- 

 ly as a food, rather than a luxury. 

 Harmonsburg, Pa., July 30. 



BISULPHIDE OF CARBON. 



CIosed-Hnd vs. Hangint Frames -Old and Nev^ 

 Combs. 



(F. Greiner). 



T HAS been said that the bee-keep- 

 er who does not use carbon bisul- 

 phide for destroying waxmoth lar- 



I 



simpler form, — and to most people in a vae is behind the times. I am not fully 



