1904 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



17 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY 

 THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG. Co., 



PROPRIETORS. 

 H. E. HILL, - EDITOR, 



FORT PIERCE, FLA. 



intercut in connection with iiis excel- 

 lent tirticle on "The Rest Honey finth- 

 eivrs" presented also in this issue of 

 The Bee-Keeper. p^rom many sources 

 w<^ set information corroborating our 

 lonji-established icle^i that the blacks 

 "are not to be sneezed at." This fact 

 we believe to be especially truie where 

 we are engaged in the pi-otluctiou of 

 c-omb honey. 



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Mr. F. Danzenl)aker, the apiarian 

 inventor of Washington, D. C, spent 

 a few hours at The Bee-Keeper office 

 recently. Mr. Danzenbaker is circu- 

 lating among bee-keepers now with a 

 new smoker of his own invention, for 

 which many excellent qualities are 

 claimed 



"Pacific States Bee Journal," is the 

 name of a new IG-page monthly pub- 

 lished at Ttilare. Calif., with P. F. 

 .\delsbach at the editorial helm. The 

 initial number presents a quantity of 

 good readinc". and the editor greets his 

 readers Avitb: "We are here. How 

 do you like the 'holler' of the infant?" 

 Should our esteemed contemporai'y 

 fail to achieve great success in the 

 realm of apicultural .iournalism. it will 

 certainly not be because of any stilted 

 dignity upon its own part. We wish 

 it success. 



Our Correspondents Department this 

 month contains two very interesting 

 reports — those of Dr. Blanton and of 

 Mr. Thos. Worthington. They are in- 

 teresting from the fact that two-thirds 

 of Mr. Worthington's bees are blacks, 

 and Dr. Blanton's becomes of special 



Burr Stacey Mention, in Pacific 

 States Bee .Tournal. says, "unsealed 

 honey contains four to -five per cent, 

 more water than sealed honey." We 

 know nothing as to how this definite 

 information was obtained, but we in- 

 cline strongly to the belief that the 

 statement is misleading in the ex- 

 treme, even though a single test may 

 have demonstrated its accuracy. The 

 writer has many times extracted 

 honey unsealed that was so thick as 

 to render the operation extremely diffi- 

 cult. On the other hand, he is quite 

 familiar with varieties of honey which 

 after uncapping could nearly all be 

 thrown from the comb while held in 

 the hands. Indeed, such honey some- 

 times ferments after sealing, bursts 

 the cappings and oozes from the combs 

 while yet in the hives. It is, therefore, 

 apparent that the statement above 

 quoted should, at least, be supple- 

 mented with a qualifying clause. 



