1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



23 



Said one of our neighbor bee-keepers, " There 

 is nothing I like to see better than my hives 

 buried up in snow, because then I know they 

 are going to winter well." 



But the snow is gone, and has been for a 

 week. We had one of those old-fashioned 

 " January thaws " in December, and since that 

 time no questions have been asked about 

 sweeping away snow. 



DOOLITTLE ON ADULTERATION. 



Brother Dooeittee, in the Progressive 

 Bee-keeper, thinks there is more noise about 

 adulteration than the facts will warrant ; that 

 there is less adulteration now than 

 formerly. If Bro. D. will go over the 

 markets as some of us have done, es- 

 pecially in the large cities, I think he 

 will have reason to change his mind. 

 It is true, honey has come down in 

 price, and so also has glucose, and very 

 nearly in proportion. If friend D. will 

 take the pains to get the price on glu- 

 cose by the carload he will find that 

 there is a good margin for adulterat- 

 ing yet. If there were not, there 

 would not be so much of it. 



I dislike to talk about adulteration 

 as much as any one ; but if we bee- 

 keepers try to cover up the fact, or 

 try to convince ourselves that it is 

 not as bad as some folks think, the 

 glucose mixers will take new courage. 

 All they want is to be let alone. In 

 that respect they are like the saloon- 

 keeper, whose business Bro. Doolittle 

 and I mutually despise. 



any thing in Danzenbaker's and Aspinwall's 

 systems of honey - production. I am well 

 aware that not all fence honey by considerable 

 is equal to the specimens shown in Glean- 

 ings, from Messrs. Danzenbaker and Aspin- 

 wall. Yes, some of it is at least no better than 

 honey produced in old style sections ; but this 

 difference, I think, is due wholly to the con- 

 struction of the separator or fence. 



OUEEN-CEEES ; NATURE AS IT IS. 

 Some little time ago Bro. Hutchinson sent 

 me a photo he had taken in miniature, repre- 

 senting some queen-cells. The thought occur- 



DANZENBAKER HONEY NOT OVER- 

 DRAWN. 



In our last issue I spoke of the fact 

 of there having been some criticism 

 to the effect that the illustrations in 

 the Review and Gleanings, showing 

 honey in plain sections, were hardly 

 fair. 



I have just received a letter from 

 Mr. J. E. Crane, of Middlebury, Vt, 

 who, after leaving Medina, went to 

 Washington, and there visited Mr. 

 Francis Danzenbaker. After look- 

 ing over his honey he says : " I do 

 not think that the illustrations of his 

 honey have been overdrawn." I thought so 

 all along myself, but I did not venture the 

 statement, as some, at least, would think I 

 was a prejudiced authority. Mr. W. Z. Hutch- 

 inson, a man who has been admired for his 

 fairness, has spoken in the highest terms of 

 Mr. Danzenbaker's honey ; and if there is 

 any man in all beedom who knows how to 

 produce a gilt-edged article, it is Mr. Danzen- 

 baker. I have seen but very little of the 

 honey produced by L. A. Aspinwall, of Jack- 

 son, Mich. ; but from what I have heard of 

 it, I should say it is fully equal to Mr. Dan- 

 zenbaker's. 



It seems to me, friends, we should throw 

 aside prejudice, and learn whether there is 



red to me that this might be enlarged to life size. 

 Accordingly I sent it to our engravers, and 

 asked them to enlarge it to show five cells to 

 the inch. The results were so satisfactory 

 that I immediately sent a proof to Bro. Hutch- 

 inson, saying I thought he had a prior right 

 to it — that I would not use it till he had used 

 it in his journal. In due time it found its 

 way into the columns of the Review; and 

 now I take pleasure in presenting what I call 

 a work of art in photography and half-tone 

 — a work of .art because it is nature itself. 



Many times beginners have had a w T rong 

 notion as to what constitutes a queen-cell; but 

 here is an illustration that will show exactly 

 what it is like. 



