M:\rch, 1921 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



187 



Our Food Page — Continued from page 156. 



JUST at this point a letter arrived from 

 Axel Hoist, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 

 which is so in line with what I have 

 written that I am going to quote briefly 

 from it. 



Mr. Hoist says: "If Fat Soluble vitamine, 

 the growth essential, in honey is due to pol- 

 len, then it would be fair to conclude that 

 where pollen is being used as a food that 

 growth would ensue. In the Beekeepers ' 

 Guide (1910) page 126, Prof. Cook states. 

 'As the microscope shows, undigested ]>oIlen 

 is given to the drone larvae after the fourth 

 day, which is not true of either queen or 

 worker.' The drone undoubtedly becomes the 

 largest of them all. 



' ' The said vitamine might also be found 

 in the wax itself, but even so be due to the 

 pollen in the honey consumed in order to 

 make the wax. The newer the comb, the 

 greater the contents of vitamine would most 

 likely be — also one reason why it could 

 be found in comb honey but not in ex- 

 tracted. 



' ' That the presence of pollen is of great 

 importance in the production of wax and 

 influencing the ease with which wax is being 

 produced, I believe is well known; and the 

 abundance of pollen in spring time may be 

 the reason for the apparent ease with which 

 wax is being produced at that time." 



The above needs no comment, but I would 

 like to add that E. Adams Butcher in 1918 

 proved that corn pollen is relatively rich 

 in the Water Soluble B vitamine, but I do 

 not know of any investigations with ref- 

 erence to the Fat Soluble vitamine. As pol- 

 len is a food for the young of bees, it seems 

 reasonable to suppose that it would contain 

 the latter-named vitamine as we'l as the for- 

 mer. 



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