1900 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



A correspondent asks C. P. Dadant if whis- 

 ky fed to bees in honey would not make them 

 bold enough to rob other people's bees. Mr. 

 Dadant disposes of so foolish an idea by say- 

 ing what ought to suggest itself to every one, 

 that bees know nothing about human owner- 

 ship. They care for nothing but their own 

 needs as a colony. Wherever they can get 

 honey, though out of an adjoining hive, they 

 will do so, no matter who owns it. There is 

 no doubt that the effect of whi&ky so admin- 

 istered would be injurious. 



The Department of Agriculture, in the last 

 Year Book issued, classes sweet clover among 

 the pleasanter weeds. Mr. Dadant says, "If 

 an out-yard or a waste corner is to be left grow- 

 ing in weeds, it is much better for it to pro- 

 duce such a plant as sweet clover, which 

 spreads a pleasant smell in the air, injures no 

 one, and enriches the soil, while, on the other 

 hand, it may be very readily destroyed if need 

 be, than to have it overgrown with the stink- 

 ing ragweed, the poisonous jinison weed, or 

 datura strimonium, or thistles. The opposi- 

 tion to sweet clover as a weed where weeds 

 must grow is beyond my understanding, for I 

 have never known this weed (?) to do any 

 harm to any one, as it is most readily exter- 

 minated when the soil it occupies is put under 

 cultivation." 



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BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 



The Transvaal and Orange Free State Gov- 

 ernments have prohibited, under severe pen- 

 alties, the sale of any thing, not the natural 

 product of the bee, under the name of honey. 

 Syrups may be sold as such as long as they are 

 not called honey. 



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An Italian bee-journal reports the case of a 

 girl in Switzerland suffering severely from 

 poverty of blood, and who could get no relief 

 through medicine. At last she tried a honej' 

 cure, which restored her to permanent health 

 in something over a month. The treatment 

 was as follows : Morning and evening, honey 

 dissolved in hot milk ; honey water at will. 

 Honey taken during the day, in all about 2 lbs. 

 each week. 



A charge of adulteration of honey was re- 

 cently brought before the authorities in Co- 

 logne, Prussia. Wm. Jaegersberg, a whole- 

 sale dealer, was sentenced to a fine of $250, 

 his wife to $75, and the auctioneer who had 

 been selling the stuff, to $5.00 and six weeks' 



imprisonment. Jaegersberg had carried on a 

 large business, supplying a number of trades- 

 men under a guarantee of pure honey. Dur- 

 ing 1898 and '99 he disposed of 67,397 lbs. of 

 manufactured honey, consisting of four-fifths 

 syrup and the rest honey. To us on this side 

 of the water it looks as if they were having a 

 paroxysm of honesty in Europe. Such frauds 

 and poisoners general get no mercy there when 

 detected. 



LE PROGRES APICOLE. 

 A merchant, P.. Hornik, of Beuthen, Upper 

 Sile.sia, had in stock 1300 kiloj^ramsof honey- 

 ed syrup, which he sold for pure. Taken be- 

 fore a tribnnal he was fined $75 for violating 

 the law cuucerniug adulteration of food. In 

 Schleswig Holstein the inspectors have taken 

 not less than eight samples of honey adulter- 

 ated with sugar syrup. The editor says, speak- 

 itig for his own country, Belgium, " We have 

 also a law designed to repress the adulteration 

 of honey ; but the eye of the inspectors seems 

 to be obstinately closed in regard to the intro- 

 duction into the country of a lot of mixtures 

 that have no honey about them but the name." 

 Our thanks are due to the editor for his friend- 

 ly remarks concerning the Home of the Hon- 

 ey-bees, based on an article written by Mr. J. 

 Verlinden. 



BLEACHING TRAVEL-STAINED COMB HONEY. 



The Full Process Explained; a Valuable Article. 



BY A. E. WHITE. 



I will try to tell you how we bleach travel- 

 stained honey. We first fumigate with sul- 

 phur, then place the combs where the sun will 

 shine on them, and that is the whole process. 



I build a frame on the south side of my hon- 

 ey-house, and cover the same with cotton 

 cloth. A door opens from the honey-house 



WHITE'S BLEACHING-HOUSE FOR SOII^ED 

 COMB HONEY. 



into this room. I place shelves on the side 

 and ends of this room, the bottom shelf being 

 a wide board to be used as a table. I place 



