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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



August 



cappings is heated about 140°, or 

 nearly to the melting point of bees- 

 wax. We stir them in it, aud after- 

 wards dip them out and press them in 

 a small press. They may afterwards 

 be rendered into beeswax according 

 to methods described elsewhere. The 

 water which remains seems turbid aud 

 dirt}^ but this is only apparent, for if 

 the business is conducted with clean- 

 liness, there is nothing in the water 

 but honey, a little pollen and broken 

 bits of wax. The wax is thrown off 

 by the liquid during fermentation, 

 and the other impurities are deposited 

 at the bottom of the vinegar or the 

 wine after fermentation has stopped. 

 To induce fermentation in the sweet- 

 ened water, any fruit-juice may be 

 used that is at hand ; neither does it 

 take very much of it in warm weath- 

 er. Blackberries, raspberries or 

 grapes will give the liquid a nice red 

 color. 



But we have stretched this subject 

 rather longer than anticipated, and 

 will have to leave the question of 

 honey-packages for another time. 



Hamilton, 111. 



NOT IMMODKST. 



Riding the bicycle hay ceased to be either 

 undignitied or conspicuous. Several years 

 ago a bishop denounced the practice by 

 women as immodest and therefore immoral, 

 An immodest wouian on a bicycle would 

 surely be immodest still, the wheel not hav- 

 ing any power to save her, but an immodest 

 woman wotild be immodest walking in the 

 •treet. or silting in church, or wherever she 

 might be. The bicycle has nothing whatev 

 er to do with modesty or immodesty, with 

 morality or immorality ; and when the pious 

 bishop uttered his denunciation of the ma- 

 chine and its use his intellectuals must have 

 been befuddled bV too much pondering on 

 ■ubjects too hard or loo easy for him. But 

 his dictum has not counted for much, for 

 the bicycle is growing in popularity every 

 day, and the manufacturers, one of whom at 

 least is turning aut one hundred machines a 

 day, have difficulty in filling the orders that 

 are sent to them. — John Gibner Speed, in 

 August Lippincott's. 



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EDITORIAL, 



A few da^'s ago we received from 

 one of our customers living in Roch* 

 ester, a sample section of honey of a 

 deep red color, the flavor of which was 

 that of red cherries. It seems that 

 sun cooked cherries were being pre- 

 pared, and they were first scalded in 

 syrup, then spread upon platters in the 

 sun, shortly afterward it was discov- 

 ered that the ground about the cher- 

 ries was literally covered with bees 

 which were either too drunk or too 

 full of syrup to fly. In time they 

 reached their hives. This incident 

 was forgotten until the hone}^ was 

 taken off when it was found to be 

 like the sample described. It is of a 

 most delicious flavor. 



We have no surplus hone}' here at 

 all, not enough for our own table. 

 If any of our readers within a rea- 



