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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



March, 1917 



HEADS OF GRAIN 



War in the Spring 



BY GRACE ALLEN. 

 (' ' By spring we too may be at war. ' ' — Press 

 Dispatches.) 



With gay young songs on her ancient lyre 

 The garlanded spring will come. 



For the lure of a flower and a sun of fire 

 The bees will quiver and hum. 



But my heart, for all its dream and desire, 

 Is cold today and dumb. 



There are voices across the dew-sweet land 



Like summoning bugles of old. 

 My quick breath stops, and a sudden hand 



Against my heart I hold. 

 For hearts that hear and understand 



Are dumb today and eold. 



At war in the spring? When wild bees wing 

 Thru murmurous orchard and lane? 



Tho men that have died, great dreams to 

 bring. 

 Have never died yet in vain. 



Yet the pity of death when robins sing 

 In the hush of a warm spring rain! 



Operating I have sold my bees in 



Diseased Bees Colorado, and will lo- 



on Shares cate here next spring 



and commence to build 

 up a yard. I shall have extra time, and am 

 desirious of leasing a yard. The owner has 

 about 60 colonies. He runs for extracted, 

 and has discovered that he has foul brood, 

 and knows next to nothing about its control. 

 What share of the crop would I be justified 

 in asking on a one or two years' lease, pro- 

 viding I do my best to clean up the yard? 

 Herbert W. Gaines. 

 Eedington, Neb., Dec. 19. 



[The usual rule where bees are kept on 

 shares is for one party to furnish all the 

 labor and the other to furnish the bees, 

 hives, and equipment; but the expense of all 

 shipping-cases, sections, comb foundation, 

 bottles, and tin cans is to be shared equally 

 by both parties. All increase is to be kept 

 down, and the operator is to double up the 

 colonies and put them in as fine condition 

 as possible for winter. In the case you 

 mention, if the owner has foul brood the 

 operator should receive at least 60 per cent 

 of the honey and possibly 75, because there 

 will be some extra work, and the crop will 

 be cut down somewhat by reason of the dis- 

 ease. We would say in this case that it 

 would be fair for the owner to receive only 

 25 per cent of the crop while the operator 

 would receive 75 per cent. The expense for 

 sj^ecial supplies should be borne in about the 

 same proportion, owner paying 25 per cent 

 and the operator 75. — Ed.] 



DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Some of the Ways We find many ways 



in Which We Have in which honey im- 

 Used Honey * proves food. A table- 



spoonful of honey in 

 the muffins for breakfast decidedly im- 

 proves them and causes them to take a 

 beautiful brown, and it gives bread a 

 moisture that improves its keeping quali- 

 ties. A dessertspoonful of honey in any 

 cake recipe improves the cake and keeps 

 it moist much longer. A small amount of 

 honey vinegar and a little soda will im- 

 prove the cake or muflEins where baking 

 powder is used, and less of the latter is 

 needed. The soda should be dissolved in 

 water, then poured into the honey and 

 vinegar, stirred into the thin batter while 

 effervescent, and then the rest of the flour 

 added. The cake will rise in a surprising 

 manner. If the housekeeper will use a little 

 honey in cakes it will prevent its falling. 



The honey cereal coffee given in Gleanings 

 is splendid. We use it the year thru with a 

 small amount of the best coffee added, and 

 we like the combination very much. This 

 recipe should be modified, however, by 

 leaving out the egg. There is no value or 

 flavor in browned albumen. 



Honey is cheaper than sugar, and now 

 is the time to introduce it. It costs money 

 to get this information before the people, 

 and this can best be done by associations. 

 I would suggest that they do this by 

 placing recipes for the use of honey where 

 people will see them, talking the matter 

 over with friends, neighbors, and those 

 we meet, and then placing the honey where 

 it is readily reached. If this is done as it 

 should be the demand for honey will be so 

 increased that there will soon be a ready 

 market for all the honey produced. 



Caldwell, Idaho. W. L. Porter. 



Cc: 



What Controls the On page 45 of the 



Time and Degree January issue Dr. 



of Granulation? Miller questions P. C. 



Chadwick 's state- 

 ment to the effect that the riper the honey 

 the less it will granulate. The editor adds 

 that it is generally believed unripe honey 

 will granulate quicker than ripe honey. To 

 my mind this does not answer the question. 

 It seems to me these are two distinctly 

 different propositions. 



It is an admitted fact that some honeys 

 do not granulate. I have some unfilled 

 sections partly capped over, left from early 

 last season, which have not yet granulated, 

 and I had some goldenrod honey that 

 granulated within a very few days after 

 it was extracted, and this was thoroly 



* Condensed from a paper prepared by Mr. Porter 

 for the last ineeting of the Colorado Honey-iJroducers' 

 Assoeiation. 



