I20 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER May 



season, would afford relief from your find some of the whitest honey I ever 

 trouble. Try a little upward ventila- saw. It was gathered from the tupelo. 

 tion during hot weather. He said, "dat honey not like my hon- 

 We regret our inability to outline a ey; my honey black and red. Dem 

 practical method for the prevention of bees do better in dem hives dan in 

 swarming. Indeed, it is doubtful if mine." He had some strained honey 

 there is any known plan by which that was very dark. We extracted 

 swarming may be profitably prevented, some honey from an apiary at same 

 The subject is one of the oldest and place and got some tup^o honey that 

 most perplexing that bee-keepers have had a fine body and almost water- 

 discussed. For something exhaustive white. Many people have confounded 

 in this line, we recommend a reading extracted honey with strained honey, 

 of Dr. Miller's new book, "Forty when there is a vast difference. 

 Years Among the Bees," just publish- The man that puts his money and labor 

 ed. To anyone interested in bees, this into the business on the modern plan 

 new volume is invaluable; in fact, we and oroduces an article of honey that 

 know of no other means by which the is as far superior to strained honey as 

 apiarian student may possess himself extracted honey is to black molasses, 

 of so much information by little read- And then to have his honey classed 

 ing and at small cost.^-Editor. with strained honey is not doing ^im 

 justice. He should have the encour- 

 agement of all honey buyers and con- 

 Jasper, Ga., March i/, 1903. sumers. This strained honey business 

 . . is not confined to any certain locality 

 Mr. iiditor- ... or section of country; but it will be 

 I have read with much satisiaction found south, north, east and west— 

 what you and others have said on wherever the hollow-log and box-hive 

 "Southern" honey. There should be ;,- j^^p^ 



more said, and the subject sifted until Yours truly, 



our words mean what they say — until ' 



every honey eater, buyer and seller, will ^- '^^ ■'^^^'• 



understand at a glance the difference 



between extracted and strained honey. Rock Valley N Y April n 1903 



There are several ways to get up ' 



strained honey; by dripping, by squeez- Dear Editor: 



ing and boiling, wherever you find the Perhaps some of my experience in a 

 log and box-hive, you will find strained case of wholesale starvation of bees, 

 honey. With few exceptions, there this past winter, may be a help to some 

 is a certain time to "rob" bees by these other bee-keeper if I give it to the pub- 

 primitive bee-keepers. Some "rob" on lie. 



the old of the moon, some wait until Going over my bees late last fall after 

 corn "tassels out," and rob mostly "of the worst honey season I have ever ex- 

 a night." Their smoker consists of a perienced, I lifted each as I usually 

 roll of rags, with some one to do the do to see which needed feeding. I 

 blowing and ashes are blown into the did not take into consideration a larger 

 honey. It is cut out to the cross- number of bees in. a hive and also the 

 sticks. Black comb, young bees and increased weight of old combs, which 

 "bee-bread," as they call it ,all togeth- most of my hives are filled up with, 

 er, and it is mashed up and allowed to Thus the 500 pounds of sugar I fed 

 drip. Or it is squeezed out, or the whole last fall was in most cases thrown away 

 is put into a pot and boiled, and the; for it was not more than one-third that 

 wax, bees and pollen skimmed off. An ought to have been fed. But now, along 

 old gentleman said to me that he could the latter part of February I find only 

 not sell his honey at all. I asked him one-half of my fall count alive and in 

 what shape it was in, and he said it was need of stores. Many of them weak 

 strained and in a barrel. I asked him, in numbers, and to feed with the Miller 

 how he_separated it from the comb or feeders as I did in the fall might be 

 wax, and he said he "just put it all fatal, so I have fed a barrel and over 

 into a large pot and boiled it." Then up to present date, and expect to feed 

 he said, "dem bees done gone and just still another by disolving one pound 

 made a mess of dat honey." I took off of sugar in one pound of water and fill- 

 the supers and the sections and, to ing my best worker combs, pouring the 



