44 AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER February, 



to it. The function of those glands ly took the largest apple. The other 

 has long been obscure, but from the said, "You selfish thing! why did you 

 foregoing I believe, it is reasonable to do it? I wanted it myself." 

 ascribe to them some part in the Perhaps I am wrong in my deduc- 

 conversion of nectar into honey. tions. But let us look into this mat- 

 Providence, R. I. ter, be consistent and get square 



with^the public. If bees can really 



HOW THE LITTLE BUSY' BEE ^nd truly make honey out of com- 



nnTM mercial sugar, then why not out 



with the whole truth? "Poor policy" 



w. w. Mc NEAL. ^^d I ^^^^ y°" ^^y^ Policy nothing! 



We should stand more on principle, 



CONSISTENCY may be a jewel live and let live. That which is good 



all true enough, but there is for the gander should also be good 

 no pressing demand, apparent- for the goose. But suppose the bees 



ly, for jewels of that sort in the fine can't turn the trick, then what? Why, 



art of honey production. then every honest producer of honey 



Even the little busy bee caught the should set down on the practice of 



spirit of the times and now looks with sugar feeding and set down on it 



distain (?) upon the stupidity of whil- hard. 



ing away each shining hour among The whole world wants honey, I 



the brambles of nature seeking the mean pure honey. It wants honey of 



sweets we love so well. Verily the luscious sweetness, the kind (grade) 



world "do move," for the records in- bees store in the caps of those same 



form us that away back in the hazy hated box-hives. That is honey, 



past the honey bee did not make hon- Consumers are tired of being offered 



ey, she gathered it from plants and a substitute. Bees may modify sugar 



flowers. However, it is refreshing to syrup and store it in combs as white 



know the bees are learning, that they as the driven snow, but they can't do 



no longer act without a "reason" or the work of the flowers. These si- 



without a "cause" as it has been lent exponents of a better world ex- 



tersely put. tract from the universal kingdom a 



We are told the old box-hive and finer article by a finer process. There 



system must go; that it is behind the is nothing in the whole category of 



times; that it is a menace to progres- saccharine substance that can for a 



sive apiculture. In those days when moment compare with the finest 



bees stored pure honey in their waxen grades of nectar, and all the ingenui- 



combs 'twas all right, though. ty and cunning of men can never en- 



Now the situation is changed. It able bees to make honey out of any 



has been discovered that bees make thirg else. 



honey (?) The modern hive helps The use of sugar in the apiary can 



some, too. What's the "hodds" if the hardly be justified on any grounds 



product is lacking in flavor so long save to prevent starvation of the bees; 



as glucose — Ah, there's the rub. I but the indiscriminate use of it is a 



must forbear. But I insist. Why wanton shame and should be de- 



the diflference — why is the one a nounced by every lover of a square 



crime and the other not? Can you deal, 

 tell? The presumption that the combs of 



Two children were playing togeth- the brood chamber may safely be 



er. They were presented with some stored with syrup prior to the honey 



apples. One of them very deliberate- harvest, providing it is done in time 



