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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



May, 



arrow in the background is also evi- that neither you nor I would hesitate an 



dently an indicator, possibly of the instant to class it as pure honey. We 



ship's anchor. should be unable to tell by taste or by 



In a little over a half century, New other test that a possibk one percent 



Zealand has built up from nothing, a ^f ^^^ j^oj^gy ^^5 „q^ honey, 



very substantial industry. She has not ,3^1 since many men are dishonest, 



only numerous apiaries as described gince men will cheat, since they will 



in a recent number of the American face a barrel of apples, since they will 



Bee-Keeper, and a government expert, ^ry to hide the poor sections in the 



but has a government apiary of over middle of a case, since they will in- 



fifty colonies under experiment. These crease the output of their honey by 



results are not a little due to tihe ef- 

 forts of Mr. Hopkins, untiring in his 

 attempts to make bee-keeping a suc- 

 cess in New Zealand. 



Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 

 Jan. 23, 1907. 



the aid of sugar-feeding, since all these 

 things and many more like unto them 

 are true then must we hesitate to give 

 an unqualified yes to the question 

 asked above. Yet I, for one, find it 

 difficult to say no to the question. In 



LANDING THE FIRST BEES IN NEW ZEALAND. 



SHALL WE USE SUGAR IN 

 FEEDING OUR BEES? 



ALLEN LATHAM. 



IF THE WORLD were perfectly 

 honest, if not a shadow of sus- 

 picion rested upon the honesty of 

 any man of us, then could we answer 

 yes, unhesitatingly to the question, 

 Shall we use sugar in feeding our bees? 

 We could then be sure that if any sugar 

 at all reached the honey to be sold it 

 would be small in amount, so small 



my own case I do not hesitate to feed 

 sugar. I am confident that my reputa- 

 tion for square dealing raises my honey 

 above the suspicion of impurity. 'Still, 

 I am not able to say that my own feed- 

 ing is not helping to keep down the 

 price and consumption of honey the 

 country over. And so the answer no 

 hovers in my mind about as uncertain 

 in alighting as the other answer. 



That we must at times feed our bees 

 is beyond argument, it is, occasionally 

 feed or lose the bees. No one will 



