drawn over the bees and tacked down. 

 The whole was wrapped up in strong 

 writing paper, tied tightly with twine, 

 and thrown into the postbffice with a 3 

 cent stamp. What cruelty, as well as 

 disrespect for regulations ! 



Thus are your oft-repeated cautions 

 ignored ; or do some wish to have the 

 postoffice regulations rescinded ? I re- 

 ceived my money back on the 10th inst. 

 from the queen-breeders mentioned in 

 the July Journal. Perhaps these bees 

 were sent by them ; if so, they deserve 

 to lose them. 



Nassagaweya, Ont., July 21, 1880. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Feeding Back for Comb Honey. 



F. I. SAGE. 



I am sorry to see an article in the Bee 

 Journal for July on the above subject. 

 I probably buy and sell more comb 

 honey than any other man in the New 

 England States. To do this I come in 

 contact with all kinds of people, from 

 the wholesale and retail dealers down 

 to the consumers who buy but a few 

 pounds. It is now believed by many 

 that much of this comb honey is, as 

 they express it, "fed honey." They 

 think that glucose, or some other cheap 

 material, is fed to the bees; and not 

 only do the dealers imagine this, but 

 the consumers begin to do so too. And, 

 although you may not agree with me, 

 still I Know the sale of comb honey in 

 the New England States has been 

 greatly damaged by people getting the 

 above idea. If honey can be fed back 

 so profitably, will not some be tempted 

 to increase the amount with glucose ? 



In 1878, among other honey, I got 

 hold of a couple of tons from Missouri; if 

 it was not " fed honey," I would like to 

 know what it was. Last season I had 

 about a ton from the State of New 

 York, which looked, tasted and acted 

 the same as that Missouri honey. And 

 as we have an expert who has discov- 

 ered a profitable way to feed back, and 

 is doing his best to teach others how it 

 is done, is it unreasonable to expect that 

 producers who read all these articles on 

 grape sugar, feeding back, etc., will 

 very soon increase their crop of pure 

 comb honey ? 



I never handle any except comb 

 honey. The extracted honey trade in 

 New'England has been almost ruined 

 by glucosed honey. I sell nothing but 

 comb honey, and wholly to dealers, and 

 in the last few years have done very 

 much toward breaking up this glucose 

 trade by posting merchants and dealers 



as to the quality of this bottled stuff. 

 Now the glucose peddlers begin to 

 strike back, saying their goods are equal 

 to mine, and say that some bee-keepers 

 advocate the use of grape sugar, glu- 

 cose, feeding back, etc. 

 Wethersrield, Conn. 



[We think there need be little fear of 

 the increase in the adulteration of honey, 

 or any other crimes, solely attributable 

 to their discussion in the bee-papers, 

 and more especially when it is univer- 

 sally condemned. How can the many 

 injurious uses of glucose be discovered 

 and counteracted except by these public 

 discussions, so long as we have no penal 

 laws to punish and prevent them V If 

 extracted honey, worth 10c. per lb., can 

 be fed back and be stored in the comb, 

 where it will be worth 20c. per lb., must 

 the information be withheld from the 

 many thousands interested, for fear 

 some unscrupulous scoundrel will take 

 advantage of it to have glucose or other 

 vile stuff stored in the boxes ? Much 

 better would it be for all, to have gen- 

 eral laws making these adulterations 

 criminal offenses, and punishing the 

 perpetrators with the same penalties as 

 other counterfeiters. — Ed.] 



For the American P.ee Journal. 



More About Bee Pasturage. 



L. H. l'AJOIEL, JR. 



This subject has received a thorough 

 consideration in our periodicals on pre- 

 vious occasions ; but we cannot too 

 thoroughly discuss it, being of such vi- 

 tal importance to the bee-keeper to 

 know upon what he can safely rely for 

 a sure crop of honey. Several years 

 ago no white clover honey was gathered 

 here, but now our crop is mainly white 

 clover. Fifteen years ago we depended 

 exclusively upon wild bee pasturage. 

 If we were to depend upon that to-day, 

 we would get no surplus whatever. I 

 was told by a bee-keeper of some expe- 

 rience, that the bees used to fill the 

 hive and surplus boxes with honey and 

 then build comb on the outside of the 

 hive and fill that also. Then the 

 linden trees were in great abundance 

 here, which always gave large yields of 

 honey ; but most of the linden trees 

 have been felled by the wood-chopper, 

 so that now but few trees are left for 

 the bees to gather honey from. Then 



