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that the ants cannot climb them. As to (he 

 quality of the honey produced, aside from 

 the algaroba honey, wliich comes in the 

 summer, it is all vile stuff. Perhaps I had 

 better say that it is the poorest gi-ade of 

 lioney I ever saw. As to the market, prior 

 to the war in Europe the honey went to 

 <ilermany, but now there is no market for 

 it, and at the present time the crop of the 

 past season is in storage in Honolulu, and 

 indications are that it is going to remain in 

 storage for some time. 



In mj' opinion the outlook for the honey- 

 producers at the present time— well, it is 

 not dark. The only word that will suffice 



is black. What will the outcome h-? Well. 

 I am not bothering my head, nt-itlier should 

 you felloAvs. You have troubles of your 

 own. 



As to local markets, there is a market 

 here, and no doubt it could be greatly in- 

 creased. As a matter of fact, people are 

 at work, and honey in bottles has within the 

 last few weeks been placed upon the mar- 

 ket. The honey is bottled by a bottling 

 company on the Pacific Coast, and the hon- 

 ey in the bottles is California honey. You 

 see the Hawaiian honey is in storage await- 

 ing the end of the war in Europe. 



Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 



AS GLIMPSED THRU THE CAMERA 



Some Common and Uncommon Sights 



BY H. H. ROOT 



Did you ever stop to think that most 

 [ihotographs of an exhibit of honey show 

 what looks to be more like an exhibit of 

 ink? Even light-colored honey takes very 

 dark, and a photograph of dark honey 

 makes black ink look pale. The trouble is 

 due to using the ordinary photographic 

 plate on which to take the picture, and 

 neglecting to use what is known as a filter. 

 The average photographic plate and film is 

 oversensitive to blue and violet, and under- 

 sensitive to yellow and orange. This means 

 that the plate does not record much reflect- 

 ed light from the yellow honey — not much 

 more, in fact, than if it were black, hence 

 the very dark appearance of the honey. 



Panehi'omatic plates, on the other hand, 

 are sensitive to all colors, as indicated by 

 the name; and when used with the proper 

 " filter " the true shade or tone of the color 

 desired can be preserved. While I have not 

 tried them, I believe that good orthoehro- 



matic plates would answer just as well for 

 honey as the panehromaties. 



The illustration shows four pictui-es of 

 the same jar of honey, photographed and 

 printed under exactly the same conditions, 

 aside from the use of different plates and 

 filters. The honey in' the jar was very light 

 ■ — ^very light yellow, in fact — and it was 

 placed on a pure-white card so that it would 

 show as light as possible. Even under th&se 

 favorable conditions, taking the picture on 

 an ordinary plate (Seed 23) as shown in 

 the first illustration made the honey appear 

 like a dark amber. If the honey itself had 

 really been an amber honey, this first pic- 

 ture would have shown the honey very dark 

 — almost black. The second picture of the 

 series was taken in exactly the same way, 

 except that a panchromatic plate (Standard 

 Panchromatic) was used. Notice that the 

 honey appears a little lighter. The third 

 picture was made with a iDanchromatic 



Four pictures of the same jar of honpy. No. 1. — Photographed on Seed 23 plate, no filter. No. 2. — 

 Photographed on Panchromatic plate, no filter. No. Z. — Photographed on Panchromatic plate, Kl filter., 

 l^o. 4. — Photographed on Panchromatic plate, K3 filter. 



