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by Mr. O. F. Fuller, of Blackstone, Alass., of his experiments with 

 bee foods. Mr. Geo. T. Whitten, of the Hartford School of Horti- 

 culture, Flartford, Conn., gave an address on "Experiment in the 

 Management of Bees for Winter Increase," which was demonstrated. 

 The Crane shipping cases were then displayed and explained by Mr. 

 J. E. Crane, Middlebury, Vt. Following Mr. Crane, Mr. E. R. Root, 

 of the A. I. Root Company, Medina, O., spoke on the ''Modern 

 Methods of Extracting Honey," explaining and demonstrating the 

 uncapping machines, the honey pump, small hand extractors, power 

 extractor, capping melters and steam uncapping-knife, which are in- 

 stalled in the bee-house through the courtesy of the manufacturers. 

 In the afternoon another opportunity was given to hear Mr. 

 Root speak on the topic of "Out Apiaries, Their Most Economical 

 Management." "Maintenance of Out Apiaries in New England" 

 was the title of Mr. A. W. Yates' address. Mr. Yates is an apiary 

 inspector for the state of Connecticut. Mr. Shaughnessy, Deputy 

 Inspector for ^Massachusetts, spoke on "Western Massachusetts a 

 Bee Country." "Increasing the Clovers and Honey Plants" was 

 the address given by Prof. W. P. Brooks, who is Director of the 

 Experiment Station, 



A Honey Cooking Suggestion. 



It is pretty well known that when 

 honey is included in a cooking recipe, 

 it is used to confer upon the product 

 the ability to keep "fresh" — not become 

 stale, dry or hard. 



Having a good recipe for crullers, 

 which I obtained years ago from a rel- 

 ative in a New England state, we have 

 usually had to throw away the last of 

 a batch because by the second day they 

 had become too stale to "find a mar- 

 ket." My observation is that no cruller 

 recipe avoids this defect. 



As an experiment, and without other- 

 wise changing the recipe, I added a 

 large cooking spoon full of honey when 

 making tlie mix. The result was even 

 better than I had expected ; there was 

 no change in the flavor of the crullers, 

 but they did not become stale and hard, 

 and there was a call for "more" as soon 

 as the lot was gone — something quite 

 unusual. 



I believe honey might be added in 

 reasonable amount to any cruller recipe 

 without detriment, and thereby secure 

 good keeping quality — which means 

 none will be wasted. Upon further 

 consideration, if honey is good for a 



cruller recipe, why not for other rec- 

 ipes? Just start a little experimenting 

 on your own account. We need not 

 worry about the price of honey if the 

 demand is brisk, and the more used the 

 better the demand ! 



Bergen Co., N. J. C. D. C. 



Editor Review : We have the largest 

 crop of honey here that I have ever seen 

 at this time of year. Most all the hives 

 have three supers on, and some have 

 four or five supers. We look for a con- 

 tinuance of the honey flow for quite a 

 while yet. I expect we will have to ex- 

 tract some soon to get combs for the 

 bees to store honey in. 



C. J. B.\RBER. 



Smithland, Iowa, July 19. 



I wish to congratulate you upon the 

 excellent work that you are doing on 

 the Bee-Keepers' Review, as is evi- 

 denced by the last issue. 



E. R. Root, 

 Editor Gleanings in Bee Culture^ 



