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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



do better; they were all workers, they 

 filled the entire brood-chamber with honey 

 from the wild aster and tangle-foot and 

 went into winter quarters about the 

 strongest hive I had. 



Season of 1887. 



There was but little surplus honey 

 made here on account of the severe 

 drought. The fall yield was greater than 

 usual, and the strong colonics made a suf- 

 ficient amount of fail honey for winter 

 stores mixed with a great deal of pollen. 

 The bees are now aflected from it, more 

 or less, with diarrhoea, as I notice in their 

 cleansing flights ; but it is not so damag- 

 ing here as it is in colder latitudes where 

 they remain confined all the time and can- 

 not relieve themselves in cleansing flights. 



Bowling Green, luj., March, 1888. 



In llje glanagcr. 



Sugar From Honey. 

 The editor of the "Am Bee Journal" pub- 

 lished entire the remarks made in the June 

 Apicultuuist under the above heading, 

 and then says : 



Tliei) Mr. Alley triumphantly asks: "Well, 

 friends, liow is that? There is nothing like being 

 a little in advance of some other people." 



If tlie " advance guard " is sought, we invite 

 frienil Alley into our Museum, wlieie ho may lind 

 a can of sugar made tVom honey, whicli has been 

 there for a dozen years. It was made by Mr. T. 

 S. Bull, of Valparaiso, Ind., and by him placed in 

 the Museum. Hundreds upon inindreds have 

 examined it, and prououuced it "all right" — 

 and excellent sugar. 



The only thing to discourage the manufacture 

 of sugar from honey is the fact that it does not 

 pay, and never can be maile to pay! It costs too 

 much, to place it in competition with cane sugar. 



It is, therefore, quite useless to throw awav 

 $5,000 to obtain a method for m.-dcing it. That 

 idea is not an arfrrtMce.' It is away behind; and 

 so far in the rear as to be " out of "sight," and ap- 

 parently forgotten 1 



Well, Thomas, let us see about the "ad- 

 vance guard." I do not claim to have a 

 " pot of sugar " manufactured from honey, 

 but do claim that the Apicui.tuhist was 

 the first bee-paper in existence to suggest 

 and advocate such an enterprise. Get 

 back of that, Thomas, if you can. 



The idea that it can never be made to 

 pay to convert honey into sugar is pre- 

 suming to know too much. If it will pay 

 to nnike sugar from beets and pumi)kins, 

 why not from honey? The opinion of the 

 editor of the A.B.J. , though good on most 

 subjects, is not valuable upon one of which 

 he knows nothing about. You should not 

 get discouraged, brother Newman; wait 

 and see if it will not pay. 



Don't you slightly misrepresent the mat- 

 ter, friend N. when you say : "It is, there- 



fore, quite useless to throw away 55,000 

 to obtain a method for making it?" My 

 suggestion was to pay the premium to the 

 person who would devise some means to 

 convert honey into sugar. Of course no 

 one supposed that it was intended to pay 

 the small sum of So. 000 to anyone who 

 could not manufacture sugar from honey 

 so it could be sold as low as any granu- 

 lated sugar. The readers of the Amekicax 

 Apicui.TURiST are very intelligent and I 

 need not spend time nor take space to go 

 into details to that extent. I guess the 

 idea is a step in advance after all. Look 

 over the back copies of your "periodical" 

 and see if you can find anything on the 

 sul)ject. You are not so " previous," Mr. 

 Editor, as you suppose. Don't claim an 

 advance over the Ancui.TCKiST on the 

 strength of what somebody else has done. 



I can show a sample of what appears 

 like granulated sugar made from honey. 

 Can produce it at anytime when hard, can- 

 died honey is at hand. [Since the above 

 was put in type, Mr. Newman has kindly 

 sent a sample of the sugar made from 

 hone3^ If no better article of sugar caa 

 be made from honey than the sample re- 

 ceived it would not be worth while to at- 

 tempt to convert honey into sugar, even 

 if it could be done atone mill per pound. 

 The sample is more like the sugar in color 

 and taste that settles to the bottom of a 

 barrel of molasses than anything else. I 

 would rather have the molasses-sugar by a 

 good deal. 



No, Bro. Newman, I will not claim that 

 the Apicultiiiust got the start of the A. 

 B. J. in the manufacture of such stuff. I 

 still claim tliough that the ApiCrLTUiasT 

 did first advocate manufacturing clean, 

 white wholesome sugar from honey. It 

 will be done, too.] 



Salt for Bees. — A writer of an item 

 in the A. B. J. has tested the remedy given 

 in the Apicui.tukist for bees having the 

 " shaking palsy." The author of the item 

 referred to no doubt named the bee-paper 

 from which he obtained such A'aluable in- 

 formation. The readers of our journal 

 get nuu-h that is valuable and worth re- 

 nicnibt'ring in each issue of the paper, as 

 the manager has had thirty years' practi- 

 cal experience in the apiary, aiid even now 

 he may lie found in the bee-yard, at least 

 ten hours each day, actively engaged work- 

 ing among- the bees. 



It Avonld not be a bad idea for the edi- 

 tors of some of the bcr-papers to take a 

 few lessons in practical lice I'ulture. Then 

 they might with far greater grace set them- 

 selves up as teachers. When an editor of 

 a paper will so garble an article as to make 



