1907. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



95 



From all these considerations I not I must leave the investigation for 



came to the conclusion that we had the sceptical to disbelieve and the 



in honey a constituent capable of act- more open-minded to carry on for me. 



ing upon sugar outside the hive and Breezy Hill, Nassau, 



changing it into "digestible sugar." 

 This constituent is bee-saliva, or to 

 designate it more accurately, honey- 

 ferment. 



Next let us consider diabetes and 

 the pancreas. 



In diabetes we have in reality a 

 mixture of diseases. The form due 



Bahamas, W. I. 



THE CONNECTICUT STATE 

 MEETING. 



The sixteenth annual meeting of the 

 Connecticut Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held Saturday, April 6, 1907 

 in room 50, State Capitol, Hartford. 

 to cancer, of course, cannot be cured A long and varied programme has 

 except by the knife. It is the medical been arranged, and we expect that a 

 forms of these diseases that we are number of able speakers will make 

 considering. addresses. All bee-keepers are urged 



These forms are due to the disease to be present, and a special invitation 

 of a gland known as the pancreas or is extended to the Ip.dies. We hope 

 sweetbread, and it is important to the ^ have a better honey display than 

 subject in hand that you should un- heretofore, and trust that everyone 



will bring samples of anything of an 

 apiarian nature. 



Connecticut people, through the 

 columns of the daily and weekly pre.=s 

 have recently been enlightened riy 

 logical and forceful arguments as to 

 the necessity of adequate foul-brood 

 we eat in the form of dextrose, into legislation, and whether our bill (now 

 the form laevulose m which we ab- before the legislature) becomes a law 

 sorb them. But when, as in diabetes, ^^ ^^^^ -^ is apparent that the hon- 

 the pancreas fails to secrete the ne- ^y industry of the State is looking up, 

 cessary ferment and hence the sugar ^nd matters apiarian are in a most 

 is absorbed in its unchanged condi- encouraging stage of progress. 



derstand the action of this gland. The 

 gland pours its secretion into a U- 

 shaped tube just beyond the stomach 

 where almost all the digestion of our 

 food takes place. Normally the pan- 

 creas here changes the sugars that 



tion and produces the characteristics 



of the disease. 



This missing ferment is, however, 



the same in its action as bee-ferment; 



and there seems no reason why the 



i„i4.„ ^i, ij i. u ^„j • I. J c and are strivmg to put the Associa- 



latter should not be used mstead of . ° ,. , _ . , r 



tion on a more solid financial foot- 



Knowledge is still power in the 

 world, and our Association stands 

 for all that is vital, sane and progres- 

 sive in the art of bee-keeping. All of 

 the officers give their services free 



It. 



There remains therefore the one 

 problem of how we are to extract this 

 ferment, — the bee-ferment. And it is 

 here that my remoteness from a 

 laboratory prevents me from pursu- mit that amount to the undersigned 

 ing the subject. Had I tlie means for without delay, and come to the an- 

 testing my results I should first try nual meeting without fail, 

 precipitating it with alcohol and re- J. Arthur Smith, Secy, 



dissolving with water, but as I have Box 38, Hartford, Conn. 



ing. 



We want 500 new members. The 

 membership fee is but 50 cents a 

 year, which entitles one to a liberal 

 discount on bee-supplies. Please re- 



