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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



comes from some one in authority, 

 some one who, so the public thinks, 

 ought to know whereof he speaks. In 

 bulletin No. 62, gotten out last Majs 

 by the Wyoming State Experiment 

 Station, at Laramie, Wyoming, may 

 be found the following statements. On 

 page 11, the following: "Probably 

 more than half of the strained honey in 

 the market contains a large percentage 

 of glucose as an adulterant." 



On page 49 it says, "When prices 

 are high, comb honey is adulterated 

 by feeding the bees cane sugar. At- 

 tempts have been made to manufacture 

 artificial comb of paraffin, but it is 

 found too soft, and the melting point 

 too low." 



I hope every reader of the Review 

 will write to the Director of the Ex- 



periment Station at Laramie, Wyo- 

 ming, and protest against the unfair- 

 ness and unreliability of these state- 

 ments, pointing out the injury that 

 they are working to an honest, helpful, 

 industry, and ask them to make the 

 proper corrections. 



It is true that glucose is used to 

 adulterate extracted honey, but to say 

 that more than half of the extracted 

 honey on the market is adulterated, is 

 an exaggeration. It is also true that 

 sugar /ms been fed to bees for them to 

 store it in sections; I have done it my- 

 self, experimentally, but the great bee- 

 keeping public has never seemed able 

 to make a success of feeding bees, 

 sugar, glucose, or even honey itself, 

 for them to store it in sections, and it 

 isn't being done. 



EXTRACTED DEPARTMENT. 



A WINTERING REPOSITORY ABOVE 

 GROUND.. 



How to Make a Good One Very 



Cheaply. The Necessity for Indoor 



Wintering in Northern 



Climates. 



Many were the losses of bees last 

 winter because of insufficient prepa- 

 ration — because of lack of stores and 

 proper protection. The necessity for 

 indoor wintering, and how to secure it 

 cheaply, is well told in an article 

 written early last spring by E. A. 

 Morgan, of Wisconsin, and published 

 in the Farmer, of St. Paul, Minnesota. 

 Mr. Morgan says: — 



The past winter has been one of 

 continuous cold all through, yet if the 

 bees were in a frost-proof cellar or 

 bee-house, with food enough, they will 

 be in as good condition, or better, than 

 thej' would had it been changeable, 

 warm or sloppy, like the winter be- 

 fore. 



I think the question of wintering 

 bees outside in chaff hives or sawdust 

 packing is settled for good after such 

 a winter as the one just passed. 



Every hive of bees in this vicinity 

 left outside was dead long ago, no 

 matter hoiv packed. Chaff hives and 

 sawdust packing will do where the 

 climate is such that the weather 

 often warms up to above the freezing 

 point, or at least as often as once in 30 

 days, 'thus giving the bees a chance to 

 change position and have a flight, but 

 during the past winter the thermometer 

 here has not been above freezing for 

 120 days. All stocks that I have had 

 a chance to examine starved and froze 

 to death with plenty of honey on all 

 sides of them, but had worked their 

 way to the top of the frames above the 

 cluster, and were too benumbed to 

 move sidewise to other combs of honey. 



I read in the bee journals of bee 

 houses for wintering bees above ground 

 made frost-proof by sawdust packing 

 on sides and on top, but which cost 

 $150. So, for the benefit of those who 

 have no cellar under dwelling, entirely 

 frost-proof, or those living on bottom 

 lands where cellars would fill with 

 water, I will give a description of my 

 present wintering receptacle. 



