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For manufacturing purposes it would seem 

 as though honey-dew might fill the bill very 

 satisfactorily. 



Brown Segar v. 



Quite a number are asking whether, on 

 account of the high cost of granulated su- 

 gar, they could not feed brown sugar in- 

 stead. The question is doubtless based on 

 the assumption that brown sugar can be had 

 cheaper or at the old price; but when one 

 sugar is advanced, the other goes up also. 

 Granulated white sugar costs only a fraction 

 of a cent more than the brown, and it will 

 be far better in every way; for while brown 

 sugar can be used for winter feeding, yet 

 even if the white cost a cent a pound more 

 it would still be cheaper, because it will go 

 further. Moreover, brown sugar has slight- 

 ly more of a tendency to cause dysentery 

 when conditions are favorable. 



mg the Use of Sweetg; oi 

 Honey a§ an Excellent Substitute 



The great steel interests of Pittsburg are 

 doing all they can to encourage the use of 

 sweets, including honey, as a substitute for 

 alcoholic drinks. They have recently, vve 

 understand, purchased a paper printed in 

 the language that their men can understand, 

 and through the means of that paper they 

 are encouraging them to use all kinds of 

 sweets and soft drinks in place of that dead- 

 ly and destructive mind and soul destroying 

 thing, alcohol. It is to be presumed that 

 these great interests are not animated nor 

 moved by any religious or moral incentive; 

 but practically all of these and other indus- 

 trial concerns where there is the open saloon 

 suffer from the condition of their force of 

 men on Monday morning, or the day after, 

 as the case may be. Large numbers of their 

 employees go into the saloons Saturday 

 night after getting their pay, and a big part 

 of it, if not all of it, is spent for something 

 worse than nothing. The result is, the meii 

 are drunk from Saturday night until prac- 

 tically Tuesday morning. Thousands of 

 them fail to show up at their posts; and the 

 steel-men, from a purely economic point of 

 view, have discovered that it is a good thing 

 to encourage the use of sweets as a substi- 

 tute, and at the same time discourage the 

 use of all alcoholic drinks. 



It is a good sign that better days are 

 coming; but right now beemen should get 

 busy. Most of them are temperance men, 

 and this is a good time to take advantage of 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



the situation and sell honey to the workmen 

 in these shops and steel-mills. Explain to 

 them that it is a food — one that will satisfy 

 a natural craving for sweets. B" so doing 

 you will remove an abnormal aesire for 

 alcoholic drinks. 



We now have seven apiaries located on 

 the edges of some of the big swamps east, 

 southeast, and south of Medina. Two are 

 located in the vicinity of Hudson, where 

 there are over a thousand acres of swamp 

 bee pasturage. One is located near the neigh- 

 boring city of Barberton; one over near 

 Copley, fourteen miles east of here ; another 

 near Sharon, eight miles, and two more 

 south of Medina, near the end of Chippewa 

 Lake, six and eight miles. The bees are 

 building up very satisfactorily, and the in- 

 crease is something phenomenal. For ex- 

 ample, a little over three weeks ago we 

 located near the Hudson swamp a yard of 

 60 three-frame nuclei. These nuclei were 

 placed in ordinary ten-frame dovetailad 

 hives, and the empty space filled out with 

 combs or foundation. A few days ago we 

 were over to visit this yard, and were sur- 

 prised to find brood and bees in six or 

 seven of the combs in many colonies where 

 there was a young vigorous queen. A sim- 

 ilar increase has been made at other yards. 

 In some cases colonies have been shaken 

 from old combs built crosswise and put on 

 frames of foundation, and now we have in 

 their place colonies in ten-frame Langstroth 

 hives, every thing new and first-class. 



On the 1st of September, Mr. A. J. Halter, 

 who is managing our Hudson bees, tele- 

 phoned over, saying he desired to have us 

 come over and see how our bees were 

 working. On visiting three of the yards we 

 found the bees flying just as if they were 

 working on the basswoods at home, and the 

 honey, too, was white and of good flavor. 

 Mr. Halter was a little uncertain as to what 

 the source might be. After going through 

 the swamp we concluded the main source 

 was from a flower that looked very mu 'h 

 like Jerusalem artichoke, sometimes called 

 earth-apple, or Canada potato {HeliantJiufi 

 tuberosus) . There are other flora that bees 

 work on to some extent, sucli as goldenrod, 

 wild buckwheat, black-eyed Susan, and some 

 sunflowers {Helianthus giganteus) ; quanti- 

 ties of beggartick, or sticktights, botanica'ly 

 known as Bidens frondosa, Spanish needle 

 {Coreopsis Tinctoria, and ironweed {Verno- 

 nia Noveborarensis.) There were also other 



