THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



279 



that are well worth considering'. He 

 saj's: — 



I have just had the opportunity of 

 reading- up some of the back numbers 

 of Gleanings. On page 1001, Dec. 1, 

 you speak of "Eastern honey" as 

 though it were about all alike so far 

 as its candying qualities are con- 

 cerned. My experience is that bass- 

 wood honey will candy in less time 

 than clover and raspberry, and will 

 liave a much finer grain. I have never 

 stirred any in either case. 



I was all ready to put up some in 

 the Aikin honey-bags last summer; 

 but the short crop, with brisk demand, 

 prevented. My plan at present is to 

 put all of my bassvvood extracted in 

 the bags, partly because it candies 

 with a fine grain, but mainly because 

 that peculiar flavor to which many 

 object is hardly noticeable in the can- 

 died state. I wonder if that isn't true 

 of other honeys that are described as 

 being "minty. " The clover and rasp- 

 berry I expect to put up in tin cans, 

 partly because I have an early de- 

 mand for extracted honey, but mainly 

 because I think its good flavor is part- 

 1}^ concealed by candying. 



When the bag's first came I opened 

 one, poured some water in it and it 

 leaked just a little. I tried a second 

 and a third, with the same result; so I 

 decided that, when I wanted to use 

 them, I would parafline them; then, if 

 I wanted to, I could fill them with 

 liquid honey and let them candy when 

 they got ready, without the bother of 

 watching and waiting till the honey 

 was thick enough so the bags wouldn't 

 leak, but not so thick that it wouldn't 

 run well. 



I paraffined a few, just to see how it 

 would work, leaving them spread out 

 full size. When I put them away I 

 put them up two and two, slipping the 

 one over the other so as to keep out all 

 dust. Later I filled half a dozen of 

 them, again using one of the empty 

 paraffined bags as a cover. So tight 

 was the fit that the smallest of ants 

 couldn't have got through to the honey, 

 and yet they went on easily enough. 

 At present they are about as hard as a 

 frozen turnip. I am keeping them to 

 hasten granulation in the summer's 

 honey. I proved by trial last summer 

 that the mixing-in of some candied 

 honey hastened the granulation of new 

 honey. 



I have been asking myself some 

 other questions: Would the mixing of 



half a pound of candied honey that has 

 ■A fine grain, with 60 lbs. of new honey 

 that, left to itself, would have a coarse 

 grain, cause the latter to have any 

 finer grain than if the same amount of 

 candied honey of its own kind were 

 mixed with it— the amount of mixing 

 done to be the same in both cases? 

 Also would the mixing of candied hon- 

 ey, that has a rapid granulation, with 

 new honey that has a ^/^?f' granulation 

 cause the latter to granulate any more 

 rapidly than if an equal amount of 

 candied honey of the same kind as the 

 slow-granulating honey were mixed 

 it? I shall seek to answer them later. 

 I might add that I produce mostly comb 

 honey. But the home demand for ex- 

 tracted honey keeps growing so each 

 year that I keep producing more and 

 more of it. 



The editor of Gleaning replies in 

 part as follows: 



"There can be no doubt that mixing 

 granulated honey with ordinary liquid 

 honey will hasten the process of gran- 

 ulation in the whole mass; but whether 

 the fine-grained article would have a 

 tendency to make other honey all fine- 

 grained is something I can not answer. 

 I should be glad to get reports from 

 those who have tested it. 



I WILL BUY 



a few tons of honey and pay cash at 

 your depot, Correspondence solicited. 

 Give full particulars as to quality, 

 sections, when it will be ready to ship, 

 price wanted, etc. If satisfactory I 

 call on you. A. W. SMITH, 

 8-04-3t Birmingham, Mich. 



100 Swarms for Sale 



In a fine basswood and clover location: bees in 

 fine chaff hives with five inches of packing; and 

 there are fixtures for producing both comb and 

 extracted honey. Address 6-04-tf 



E.D.OCHSNER, Prairie du Sac Wis. 



Several tons of choice Extracted clo- 

 ver honey, put up in Kegs holding 

 about 160 lbs. net, at 6 cents per pound, 

 F. O. B. Delanson. 8-04-tf 



E. W. & F. C. ALEXANDER. 

 Delanson, Schenectady Co., N. Y. 



