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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 



of bee lore and the fond, foolish fan- 

 cies of hundreds of years before him, 

 he re-minted in a golden currency 

 and immortalized — the silly things as 

 well as the wise — forever. 



The lady in question had a lovely 

 garden, good soul, and the pleasant 

 nonsensical things of Virgil hummed 

 in her head until she finally decided 

 to embark on beekeeping. A straw- 

 domed hive it should be, because it 

 looked more picturesque ! She con- 

 sulted her friends — ^but not me — as to 

 a handbook, a modern one, on bee- 

 keeping. So she bought Maeter- 

 linck, which she enjoyed reading al- 

 most as much as her great Latin 

 master, and felt set up for the task. 

 Of course, what happened was, the 

 bees had their own sweet way, did 

 what they liked, and lived and en- 

 joyed themselves, much as wild bees 

 would in a wood. There was no honey 

 on ithe breakfast table, not, at least, 

 from the picturesque, dome-shaped 

 hives. But she did not mind; they 

 formed a pleasant feature in her well- 

 ordered garden, blended with flowers 

 and grass walks and summer sun- 

 shine. I feel I ought not to reckon 

 my gentle lady friend with those who 

 should not keep bees. They were 

 part of her fair Paradise and became 

 it. Utilitarianism is an abhorrent 

 thing. God made fair sounds and 

 scents and colors. God made butter- 

 flies as well as bees ; and so in the 

 scheme of things there is a place, 

 apart from all thought of profit, for 

 the straw-dome hive and the unmo- 

 lested bee, set in a garden fair. — Rev. 

 A. A. Evans, in ithe Sussex County 

 Herald, England. 



give the finished product a very char- 

 acteristic flavor, which is wholesome 

 and desirable." 



Moral: Beekeeper, see that your 

 baker reads this, and get busy and 

 furnish honey for this added demand. 



Honey for Baking 



By Kenneth Hawkins 



One of the biggest boosts for the 

 use of honey in cooking appears in 

 the May issue of the "Bakers' Week- 

 ly," a magazine of national distribu- 

 tion devoted to the interests of the 

 commercial baker. The author, Chas. 

 A. Glaubau, after reciting the chem- 

 ical composition of honey and its bet- 

 ter food value than ordinary sugars, 

 gives several recipes for the use of 

 honey in baking. 



The following table for a "batch" 

 of dough to make 141 loaves of bread 

 is repeated for Journal readers : 



Flour, 100 lbs. at $12 per bbl $6.00 



Water, 56 lbs. 



Salt, 1J4 lbs., at .0075 per lb .13 



Yeast, I'A lbs., at 30c per lb .45 



Lard, 2 lbs., at 23c per lb .46 



Honey, 2 lbs., at 17c per lb .34 



Malt extract, 1 lb., at 9c per lb .09 



Cost $7.35 



The same recipe using sugar and no 

 honey made 141 loaves cost to the 

 baker $7.53. 



The writer of the article is quoted 

 as follows: "There is one form of 

 sugar, probably the first kind of 

 sweetening agent brought to mankind 

 by nature, which will meet the many 

 requirements of the baker. After 

 considerable investigation it has been 

 found that honey is very well adapted 

 to replace cane sugar. Not only to 

 replace cane sugar satisfactorily, but 



The Mid-West Show 



It is to be hoped that the exhibits of 

 bees and honey at the Mid-west Hor- 

 ticultural Show, to be held at Council 

 Bluffs, Iowa, in November, will not 

 be confined to Iowa. Indiana apple 

 men carried off some of the big prizes 

 last year and there is no reason why 

 beekeepers from other States may not 

 come in also. 



There is a special prize for the best 

 county association exhibit which 

 should interest some of our live 

 associations just now. It is not too 

 early to begin making plans for this 

 show. Those interested should write 

 to Prof. F. B. Paddock, Ames, Iowa, 

 for a copy of the premium list and for 

 instructions for shipping exhibits, in 

 case no one will be in personal 

 charge. The Mid-West Horticultural 

 show is a great exhibition of horticul- 

 tural products and the beekeepers 

 cannot afford to overlook the oppor- 

 tunity to advertise their product in 

 this connection. 



An Emblem for the Members of the 

 League 



At the National meeting at Buffalo, 

 a committee was appointed to secure 

 the making of a button or pin, of bet- 

 ter quality and better finish than the 

 cheap buttons thus far issued to bee- 

 keepers. This committee now reports 

 that an emblem exactly like the cut 

 accompanying this notice may be se- 

 cured either as a pin or a screw-back 

 button, in bronze or gold finish, which 



may be delivered to the beekeepers by 

 mail at 80 cents, provided at least 

 100 of them are subscribed for. You 

 need not send money till the buttons 

 are ready. Just write that you want 

 one. 



C. P. DADANT, Hamilton III. 



J. S. DUNN, Ridgewav, Ont. 



S. J. GRIGGS, Toledo, Ohio. 



Emblem Committee. 



Official emblem of the American Honey Pro- 

 ducers' League 



A Honey-Feeding Larva 



By Wm. Cockle 



Having set aside some frames of 

 partially capped honey, I was much 

 surprised when examining them in 

 October to see that they were cov- 

 ered with what appeared at first sight 

 as cobweb, but on closer examination 

 I discovered a lot of small whitish 

 larvffi secreted under the webs in the 

 partially filled cells; where the cell 

 was empty the larva was to be seen 

 coiled up in the bottom, but in case 

 the larva was feeding on the honey 

 it had spun a web about one and a 

 half inches in diameter over the comb 

 and either rested on the web or under 

 it. Observation showed that the lar- 

 va reached down through a hole in 

 the web to feed, but did not remain in 

 the cell until all the honey had been 

 extracted. In a few instances, when 

 the larva had emptied the first cell it 

 had pierced the wall of the adjoining 

 cell, from which it continued feeding; 

 though this was the exception and 

 not the rule — most of the larvae feed- 

 ing from the top. 



On October 14, finding that the 

 number of larvae was decreasing and 

 that there were no signs of any pupae, 

 I removed the balance to a breeding 

 jar, placing in it a little dry earth, a 

 few dry leaves and a small block of 

 comb honey. 



When removing one of the larvae 

 from which to make a description, I 

 took it up on the point of the knife 

 with which I had previously cut the 

 honey. It crawled over the honey 

 without ithe slightest trouble; the 

 stickiness did not appear to incon- 

 venience it at all or to interfere with 

 its progress ; but they prefer to travel 

 upon the dry comb or upon the mat 

 of silk with which they cover the 

 comb surrounding the cell from which 

 they are feeding and in which they 

 leave a small hole over the cell 

 through which they feed. 



During tlie succeeding months the 

 larvae spun tunneled silk passages all 

 around the jar, extending them both 

 through the comb and also down into 

 the dry earth at the bottom of the 

 jar. They covered the whole interior 

 of the jar with a mat of silk as thick 

 as a good sheet of paper, but could 

 be observed through the glass resting 

 in the tunnels; in these they passed 

 the winter, and as they were kept in 

 a warm room, they were never dor- 

 mant, but appeared to be feeding all 

 the time. 



Description of Mature Larva 



Length : 16 m. m. 



Color: Cream; head light brown, 

 mandibles and lower edge of cheek 

 much darker brown ; thoracic seg- 

 ment lighter than head; divided at 

 dorsum, a dark brown splash at stig- 



