1907. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



139 



FROM SANTO DOMINGO. 



lows only a certain percentage of 

 „ , .^ TVT o 1^ • glucose, as that substance is one of 



Sabana La Mar, Santo Domingo, the chief adulterants that is corn- 

 March 8, 1907. monly used. While the island honey 



Editor American Bee-Keeper: is Pure and just as wholesome as 



Permit me to thank The American that produced in any part of the 



Bee-Keeper and Dr. Blanton for their ^^°''^^' ^^is comparatively large 



good advice, which came too late, as amount of glucose shows badly in the 



I had lost all my bees. I have, how- f.^^lysis. The honey shipment of 



ever, started anew; but on account of ^'^^ ''^^"^s will amount to over 800 



difficulty in securing material, could 



not follow the good doctor's advice 



in detail, though it was a great help 



to me, and thereby I avoided many 



errors. 



We have the stingless bee here 



also. They are seen on the bloom of 



the tamarind tree, though I have 



never seen any of the other kinds of 



bees working on this bloom. I do 



not think that they amount to any- 

 thing—that is, for domestication. 

 The more I read of the Caucasian 



bee, the more I think it is the same, 



or very near the same as our native 



Dominican bee. Its stinging and 



working propensities are about the 



same. 



Will you please tell me the best 



way to extract pollen from the 



combs, regardless of the combs, the 



pollen to be fed? 



Joseph Braun. 



If pollen is to be fed, and the 

 combs are not needed otherwise, why 

 extract it? In the comb it is in the 

 most convenient form possible for 

 feeding.— Editor. 



ENTOMOLOGIST FROM HA- 

 WAII GOES TO WASHING- 

 TON. 



D. L. Van Dine, experiment station 

 entomologist for the Hawaiian is- 

 lands, arrived a few days ago and is 

 now at Washington, D. C, where he 

 has gone to confer with Dr. L. O 

 Howard, chief of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, concerning a number of prob- 

 lems that have come up in the ento- 

 mological affairs of the islands. 



One of the most interesting of 

 these is in regard to the honey 

 produced on the islands. There is 

 sortie substance there that the bee? 

 obtain that gives a very high per- 

 centage of glucose in the honey. 

 The government pure food law al- 



WITH THE VEIL SLIPPED OFF THE HAT. 



tons this year, and the producers are 

 greatly interested in having the law 

 so modified in their case as to allow 

 the honey to come under the pure 

 food products. — California Fruit 

 Grower. 



