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I don't know. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



I have no means of knowing. — Eugene 

 Secob. 



T have no means of knowing. — M. 

 Mahin. 



I wish I knew, but I do not. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



I should judge about 20 pounds. — G. 

 L. Tinker. 



That is closer than I am able to figure. 

 — J AS. A. Stone. 



I cannot tell, having never tested it. — 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Were I to answer, it would be a guess, 

 so I quote, " I doji't know." — A. J. Cook. 



Not having experimented "on this 

 line," I win say " I don't know." — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



I do not know, and if I did know, I 

 do not know what benefit it would be to 

 know. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



A good question — and it is a question, 

 too. I wish I had time to write an arti- 

 cle on that subject. — J. H. Larrabee. 



We would like to know it ; honey is 

 not the only food used — nursing bees 

 want pollen and water also. — Dadant 



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Who can tell ? I can't, for one, and 

 doubt if any one can. What benefit 

 would it be to learn the facts, anyhow ? 

 —J. E. Pond. 



This question could only be answered 

 by " guess-work ;" not even an approxi- 

 mate answer could be given, because 

 there are too many "depends." — J. P. 

 H. Brown. 



It would be hard telling. It is esti- 

 mated that it costs 60 pounds of honey 

 to carry a colony of bees through the 

 year, but considerable of this is con- 

 sumed when there is no brood in the 

 hive. — G. M. Doolittle. 



I guess it takes over a pound of honey 

 and beebread together to make a pound 

 of bees. I have thought it took a sheet 

 or comb filled with honey and bee-bread 

 to fill the same with brood. In cool 

 weather, more honey is used than in 

 warm.— P. H. Elwood. 



I have never experimented in this line 

 to determine the exact amount, but I 

 know from a long experience that where 

 a large amount of brood is being reared 

 in early spring, before honey can be 

 gathered, that the hives decrease in 

 weight very fast. — S. I. Freeborn. 



There is no way to find out a matter 

 of that kind. Some person, or persons, 

 have made some effort to approximate, 

 bv feeding bees artificially. But like 



the attempt to find out how much honey 

 it takes to produce a pound of beeswax 

 by feeding, no reliable conclusion has 

 l)een reached. At best, it is an unsatis- 

 factory guess, and is likely to stay in 

 the middle of a doubtful bad fix. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



This is something I have often thought 

 al)out, but never knew how to get at. 

 But to satisfy my own mind, I have 

 thought as the bee is reared upon honey 

 that it must surely take as much as her 

 weight in honey to bring her through, 

 but I will let some of the "Hasty" bee- 

 keepers answer. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



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Rinenliig Honey— Wliere to Keep It. 



Written Sor the American Bee Journal 

 BY C. W. DAYTON. 



On page 663 of the Bee Journal for 

 1893, Mr. Geo. F. Robbins says that on 

 pages 470 and 496, in my article, I 

 " miss the mark " as to the proper care 

 of honey, and ti^at I "seem to think 

 that honey should be left on, or in the 

 hive, in order to become best ripened 



and flavored In the case of the 



honey that soured, the error was not in 

 extracting when one-third sealed, but in 

 the after treatment." 



By some study of the above-mentioned 

 articles, it will be seen that Mr. Rob- 

 bins favors an artificial plan of ripening, 

 while our intention was to wait until 

 the honey was entirely ripe before ex- 

 tracting, thus making the bees do all 

 the labor. But the trouble was inti- 

 mated in my first article — we did not 

 wait long enough. That is where they 

 all " miss the mark." 



That one-half of the honey was ripe 

 enough to remain sweet when sealed 

 up in screw-cap cans, shows that our 

 method was good where it was well fol- 

 lowed. The artificial way of ripening is 

 good, but if we had been ripening all 

 the honey artificially in pans or stone- 

 jars, we might then have extracted when 



