Vol. XII. 



DEC. 1, 1884. 



No. 23 



TERMS: «1. 00 Pkr ANNUM, inAdvaNCR;! 

 2OopiesforSl.90;3for«2.75;Sfor«4.00; 

 10 or more, 75 ctij. each. SingrleNiunber, 

 5 ots. Additions to elubs maybe made 

 at club rates. Above are all to be sent 1 

 to ONE P03T0F-FICE. I 



Chibs to different poRtoffices, not hv^s 

 than 90 cts. each. Sent postpaid, In the 

 IJ. S. and Canaflas. To all other coun- 

 tries of the Universal Postal Union, Ifc 

 \ T 7?<"kr^T ATTTTklXr \ rkTIT/"k 1 per. ve«r extra. To all countries NOI of 

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Established in 1873. 



PIBLISHKD SEMI-MONTHLY BY 



THE "GOOD" CANDY. 



SOMETHING FROM FRIEND DOOLITTLE IN REGARD 

 TO IT. 



§ BEING mj-name mentioned in connection with 

 the"Guod" candy, on p. 728 of Gleanings, 

 Nov. 1, 1 thought it might be best to define my 

 position relative to that candy, lest some 

 might think that I did not indorse it. I now 

 believe I was the first one to try to use sugar and 

 honey combined, as a food for bees in mailing- 

 cages; but as I did not succeed in getting it in prac- 

 tical shape, the honor belongs to friend Good for so 

 introducing it to the public that it would be of val- 

 ue. About three years before I ever heard of the 

 candy as used by fi-iend Good, and at a time when 

 honey mostly was used in shipping-cages, I experi- 

 mented largely with all kinds of food, by trying dif- 

 fci-ent kinds of candy in my cages as well as honey. 

 These experiments were conducted in^y shop, the 

 cages of bees being put in a sack, and set in a dark 

 place. Once or twice each day the sack was taken 

 and thrown about the shop, after using it very 

 roughly, after which it was returned to its place in 

 the dark. An old worn-out queen was given to each 

 cage, which also contained 13 worker-bees, so that 

 all the conditions should resemble, as nearly as pos- 

 sible, those the bees must pass through in shipping. 

 Of all the sugar and flour, cream and hard candy, 

 with and without water, none of the bees lived over 

 l.'j days (Some living scarcely 10), while those with 

 honey in comb, and with the (iood candy, lived from 

 ^0 to 24 days, when the honey and candy kept their 

 I)laccs in the cage. The trouble was T did not con- 

 ceive the way of keeping them in the cage so that 

 they would surely stay when .subject fo rough us- 



age. The way I made the candy was to stir pulver- 

 ized sugar in the honey, and, when quite thick, 

 knead in more sugar till 1 had it hard enough so it 

 would not run, when it was packed down in one 

 corner of the cage, depending upon its adhering to 

 the sides of the cage enough to hold it. But as it 

 was no certain thing that it would stay, I gave it up, 

 using honey in the comb for long distances, and the 

 cream candy for a short journey. 

 AVhen friend Good came out with his cage for 

 ! holding the candy, or, rathei-, when friend Hutchin- 

 1 son told us of it, I at once knew the thing was 

 ' practical, and so adopted it at once, and I have 

 I scarcely lost a queen in shipping since. In 1883 I 

 sent one safely to Scotland, and others to the most 

 ; distant parts of the U. S. Early this fall I started 

 one for New Zealand in the mails, but it has not yet 

 j been het.rd from since it left San Francisco, Cal., as 

 j hardly time enough has elapsed. I do not expect 

 this one will go through ali\e, as the friend's letter, 

 who ordered it, was 30 days on the road. 

 Well, all of the above is only as an introduction, 

 ; as it were, to what I wished to say; and if friend 

 Root does not think it worthy of a place in Gi,ean- 

 i INGS, he can clip it otf. Tlie point I wish to get at 

 j is, that from all the experience I have hart, the 

 sugar contained in the candy is not used by the 

 bees in warm weather at all, but is thrown out as 

 waste material; while when it is cold enough to 

 confine the bees to the hive, or so cold that mois- 

 ture is condensed upon the candy, then the sugar is 

 used by the bees the same as they use rock or other 

 candy in winter. On page 27, present volume, friend 

 Fradenburg tells how the grains of sugar were 

 carried out by the bees, where he tried to use the 

 ' (Jord candy for feeding at a time when the lieea 



