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ravages of worms are to be expected." 

 If, however, the worms have gained a 

 foot hold in the hive, or if from weakness, 

 there is danger of such being the case, 

 then the old and reliable remedy of hand- 

 picking must be resorted to. All the 

 authorities unite in recommending fre- 

 quent examinations of the combs, and 

 some suggest the use of a thin stick, 

 pointed with irou, for killing the worms 

 or moths which may be found between 

 the combs, or in other places difficult of 

 access. Such examinations should be 

 made frequently throughout the season, 

 and especially in the latter part of summer, 

 and in the fall months, when the worms 

 of the last brood are spinning them- 

 selves up. 



All authorities unite in saying that no 

 contrivances intended to make the hives 

 moth-prot)f are of any avail whatever. It 

 is impossible to arrange the openings to 

 the hive so as to certainly keep out the 

 moths, although of course a small open- 

 ing is better than a large one, because in 

 the former case the bees can guard it more 

 thoroughly. Hives made so as to close 

 automatically at night-fall, and those 

 which are closed by the weight of fowls 

 on their roosts may as well be discarded 

 at once, and the bee-keeper who invests 

 his money in one is simply throwing it 



away. 



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For the American Bee Joarual. 



Extracted Honey. (Sugar Syrup.) 



I cannot refrain from replyinj'^ to one 

 or two articles which have lately appeared 

 in The Journal. 



B. Y. T., of Henry County, Ind., says : 

 " I see * * * there was a poor honey 

 harvest in nearly all parts of the country. 

 Still the markets are better supplied with 

 extracted honey (sugar syrup) than in any 

 previous year, etc., etc." Now, that his 

 assertion is incorrect, I will show in three 

 ways. Now, mark you carefully, he says 

 extracted (sugar syrup). Bee-keepers do 

 not extract sugar syrup. They need not 

 feed it to the bees to extract it. Again, 

 mere white sugar syrup is too costly, 

 (brown cannot be used). Is he so ig- 

 norant that he does not know that glucose 

 is the article used to adulterate with? 

 Can he point to any bee-keeper who 

 adulterates his own raising of honey 

 before it goes to market ? There are some 

 five or six honey dealers who adulterate 

 with glucose; then, that is not "sugar 

 syrup," nor half so good. His whole 

 charge is directed against bee-keepers, and 

 honey dealers are not on the list, only 

 those who extract are subjects for Orange 

 Judd & Co. Worse still, no honest man 

 will use an extractor at all. 



Secondly. Did B. Y. T. stop to enquire 

 how much old honey there was on the 

 market ? How much poplar, fruit-bloom, 



buckwheat, that is too dark for sale in 

 jars, or almost any way, only in combs 

 (it sells in the comb). Yes, and when it 

 is in the comb, it is "pwre honey" but ex- 

 tracted, it is sugar syrup. Calling all ex- 

 tracted honey, sugar syrup, and all who 

 extract, humbugs, is an insult to bee- 

 keepers that no honest man will give, who 

 is fully posted in the matter. 



We would infer that extracted honey is 

 the only adulterated honey. I heard from 

 two good men, that a man not a hundred 

 miles from Lawrenceburg, Indiana, sold, 

 during fall and winter of 1874, at retail, 

 at 18 cents per ft., 1,800 fts. of sugar 

 syrup " IN THE COMB." He offered it to a 

 honey dealer, but was informed of its 

 quality. What will B. Y. T. say to this? 

 I shipped 10 barrels of " extra^ed," and 

 there was not an ounce of " sugar syrup " 

 or glucose either, in it. Mr. Charles F. 

 Muth can speak of its quality. Extracted 

 honey is the best for the consumer ; he can 

 see and taste for himself, and not buy 

 comb-honey, like a " pig in a poke." Wax 

 is indigestible and injurious, and should 

 not be eaten. As to preaching against 

 extractors, it will be about as ineffectual 

 as turning a river back through its beaten 

 channel ; if not allowed any other Ase, we 

 will keep them to make room for the 

 queen, and feed our humbug honey to the 

 negroes, who would smack their lips at 

 ^' sugar syrup." Let bee-keepers sell direct 

 to consumers, and there will not be any 

 more fault found with extracted honey. I 

 have a way of extracting honey, and have 

 the dark and light kept separate ; return 

 the dark to the bees for winter, and sell 

 the fine. 



B. Y. T. wants the columns taken up 

 with directions for making box-honey. 

 Perhaps the Indiana man (who sold the 

 1,800 fts. of " sugar syrup " in the comb,) 

 would, for a paltry sum, give Mr. B. Y. T. 

 a recipe for it. 



Mr. James Heddon seems to have 

 created a stir among the hives. He asks 

 why " C. O. Perrine replies that he does 

 not want to buy honey at any price." 

 Well, glucose is plenty and cheap. There 

 is no use of selling to such men, as there 

 are a plenty of others to buy. There is 

 no room to complain when we can get 

 from 10 to 123^ cents for good extracted 

 honey, that is equal to from 21 to 25 for 

 box, and far less expense, danger, too, 

 and expense of shipping. I have tried 

 both, box and extracted. When you can 

 give them small pieces of comb to induce 

 them to build, it requires 1 ft of box to 

 equal 23^ of extracted ; without any comb, 

 1 of box to 3 of extracted ; if you take out 

 frames and insert boxes in their stead, 1 

 pound of box to 2 of extracted. When 

 close to market, boxes may do ; but when 

 a distance to ship and honey is fair, then 

 extracted. 



Mr. Heddon says, when apiarists learn 



